Septoplasty with or without concurrent turbinate surgery versus non-surgical management for nasal obstruction in adults with a deviated septum: a pragmatic, randomised controlled trial

Pain ManagementPostoperative Pain

Thoracic paravertebral block for postoperative pain management after renal surgery: A randomised controlled trial

Eur J Anaesthesiol.

Copik M, Bialka S, Daszkiewicz A, Misiolek H

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Obesity and Anesthesia

Association of metabolic-bariatric surgery with long-term survival in adults with and without diabetes: a one-stage meta-analysis of matched cohort and prospective controlled studies with 174 772 participants

Lancet

Syn NL, Cummings DE, Wang LZ, Lin DJ, Zhao JJ, Loh M, Koh ZJ, Chew CA, Loo YE, Tai BC, Kim G, So JB, Kaplan LM, Dixon JB, Shabbir A

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00591-2

COMMENTED

Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW): a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group, randomised surgical trial

Lancet.

Beard DJ, Rees JL, Cook JA, Rombach I, Cooper C, Merritt N, Shirkey BA, Donovan JL, Gwilym S, Savulescu J, Moser J, Gray A, Jepson M, Tracey I, Judge A, Wartolowska K, Carr AJ; CSAW Study Group

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Pain ReliefPostoperative Pain

Epidural analgesia versus patient-controlled intravenous analgesia for pain following intra-abdominal surgery in adults

Cochrane Database Syst Rev.

Salicath JH, Yeoh EC, Bennett MH

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Viral Infections, Non-HIV

A multi-centre open-label two-arm randomised superiority clinical trial of azithromycin versus usual care in ambulatory COVID-19: study protocol for the ATOMIC2 trial

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Hinks TSC, Barber VS, Black J, Dutton SJ, Jabeen M, Melhorn J, Rahman NM, Richards D, Lasserson D, Pavord ID, Bafadhel M

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Mechanical Ventilation

Apnoeic oxygenation with nasal cannula oxygen at different flow rates in anaesthetised patients: a study protocol for a non-inferiority randomised controlled trial

BMJ Open.

Theiler L, Schneeberg F, Riedel T, Kaiser H, Riva T, Greif R

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Bacterial Infections

Prevention of severe infectious complications after colorectal surgery using oral non-absorbable antimicrobial prophylaxis: results of a multicenter randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial

Antimicrob Resist Infect Control.

Mulder T, Kluytmans-van den Bergh M, Vlaminckx B, Roos D, de Smet AM, de Vos Tot Nederveen Cappel R, Verheijen P, Brandt A, Smits A, van der Vorm E, Bathoorn E, van Etten B, Veenemans J, Weersink A, Vos M, van 't Veer N, Nikolakopoulos S, Bonten M, Kluytmans J

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Timing of surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis: a phase 3 randomised controlled trial

Lancet Infect Dis.

Weber WP, Mujagic E, Zwahlen M, Bundi M, Hoffmann H, Soysal SD, Kraljević M, Delko T, von Strauss M, Iselin L, Da Silva RXS, Zeindler J, Rosenthal R, Misteli H, Kindler C, Müller P, Saccilotto R, Lugli AK, Kaufmann M, Gürke L, Oertli D, Bucheli-Laffer E, Landin J, Widmer AF, Fux CA, Marti WR

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General Anesthesia

Intravenous versus inhalational maintenance of anaesthesia for postoperative cognitive outcomes in elderly people undergoing non-cardiac surgery