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Table 8 Ventilation studies

From: Patient-centred outcomes are under-reported in the critical care burns literature: a systematic review

Author

Year

Study type

Centre(s)

Number

Population

Intervention

Control

Primary outcome

Surrogate vs patient-centred

LFU (days)

Elsharnouby et al. [119]

2014

RCT

1

29

TBSA > 15%

Nebulised heparin sulphate 10,000 IU with NAC

Nebulised heparin sulphate 5000 IU with NAC

Lung injury score

Surrogate

35

Reper et al. [120]

2002

RCT

1

35

TBSA > 20%

HFPV

Conventional mechanical ventilation

FiO2

Surrogate

5

Chung et al. [121]

2010

Pseudo RCT

1

62

TBSA >30%

HFPV

Low tidal volume ventilation

Ventilator-free days in first 28 days

Patient-centred

28

Mcginn et al. [122]

2019

CSWCC

1

48

Mechanically ventilated with inhalational injury

Nebulised heparin ± NAC and albuterol

Albuterol ± ipratropium

Duration of mechanical ventilation

Patient-centred

NA

Miller et al. [123]

2009

ISWCC

1

30

Inhalational burn injury

Nebulised heparin sulphate 10,000 IU with NAC and albuterol

Nebulised albuterol

Lung injury score

Surrogate

7

  1. RCT randomised controlled trial, Pseudo RCT pseudo-randomised controlled trial, ISWCC intervention study without concurrent control, TBSA total burn surface area, NAC N-acetyl cysteine, HFPV high frequency percussive oscillatory ventilation, LFU longest follow-up