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Top Anesthesiology Research Papers
1.
7.8
Conventional vs Video-Assisted Laryngoscopy for Perioperative Endotracheal Intubations: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Overall: A large multicenter randomized trial found clinically meaningful improvements in first-pass intubation success with readily deployable video laryngoscopy, though the primary outcome was procedural rather than a major patient outcome.
2.
7.6
Total Intravenous vs Volatile Inhalational Anesthesia for Major Noncardiac Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Overall: A large, precise randomized trial found no clinically important recovery or safety advantage for TIVA over volatile anesthesia, despite small reductions in minor postoperative symptoms.
3.
7.2
Cold and Room-Temperature Platelets in Cardiac Surgery: The CHIPS Randomized Clinical Trial.
Overall: A large, well-conducted randomized trial supports substantially longer cold storage without reduced hemostatic efficacy, although no patient-level superiority was shown and increased reexploration requires attention.
4.
7.2
Sugammadex versus neostigmine for reversal of neuromuscular blockade and postoperative pulmonary complications (SNaPP): an international, randomised, controlled, phase 4 trial.
Overall: SNaPP was a strong pragmatic randomised trial showing a small reduction in postoperative pulmonary complications with sugammadex, but the result was borderline and driven mainly by atelectasis of uncertain clinical significance.
5.
7.1
Safety of routine antimicrobial prophylaxis for surgery (SAPPHIRE): a prospective multi-centre cohort study.
Overall: This large prospective cohort links additional perioperative antimicrobial doses to more adverse effects without fewer infections, but residual confounding prevents firm causal conclusions.
6.
7.1
Holding vs Continuing GLP-1/GIP Agonists Before Upper Endoscopy: The OCULUS Randomized Clinical Trial.
Overall: Holding one GLP-1 or GLP-1/GIP agonist dose substantially reduced clinically significant retained gastric contents, but the small early-terminated trial and absence of increased adverse events limit definitive practice-changing conclusions.
7.
6.5
Induction Agents for Tracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Overall: This rigorous synthesis addresses a common high-risk procedure with readily implementable options, but its mostly intermediate findings, competing effects, and low-certainty comparisons limit conclusions about patient benefit and immediate practice change.
8.
6.3
Adductor Canal Block and Local Anesthetic Versus Local Anesthetic Alone in ACL Reconstruction: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial.
Overall: This well-designed but modest and incompletely reported randomized trial found no demonstrated benefit from adding adductor canal block to local infiltration, supporting a simpler workflow without providing sufficiently detailed estimates for a definitive practice change.
9.
6.2
Comparative effectiveness of intravenous remifentanil, epidural anesthesia, and a 2-step analgesic approach for external cephalic version: a large prospective single-center cohort study.
Overall: This large prospective cohort reports meaningful advantages for epidural anesthesia in version success, vaginal delivery, and pain, but temporal confounding and increased complications limit certainty and practice-changing force.
10.
6.0
Multicenter validation of a severity index model for predicting postoperative acute kidney injury.
Overall: This is a large, methodologically strong external validation study of a clinically relevant prediction model, but it does not establish that model-guided care improves patient outcomes.
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