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  1. Perioperative changes in haemoglobin and ferritin concentrations from preoperative intravenous iron isomaltoside for iron deficiency anaemia in patients with colorectal cancer: A pilot randomised controlled trial
  2. Effect of motor subtypes of delirium in the intensive care unit on fast-track failure after cardiac surgery
  3. Medical students and professionalism – Do the hidden curriculum and current role models fail our future doctors?
  4. Early Exclusion of Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Emergency Department Chest Pain Patients: A Prospective Observational Study
  5. Are high nurse workload/staffing ratios associated with decreased survival in critically ill patients? A cohort study
  6. Prolonged infusion of sedatives and analgesics in adult intensive care patients: A systematic review of pharmacokinetic data reporting and quality of evidence
  7. Risk prediction models for delirium in the intensive care unit after cardiac surgery: a systematic review and independent external validation
  8. Add-on tests for improving risk-stratification in emergency department patients with chest pain who are at low to moderate risk of 30-day major adverse cardiac events
  9. Fast-track cardiac care for adult cardiac surgical patients
  10. Determinants of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations and a Screening Test for Moderate-to-Severe Hypovitaminosis D in Chinese Patients Undergoing Total Joint Arthroplasty
  11. Performance comparison of improvised prehospital blood warming techniques and a commercial blood warmer
  12. Physician staffed helicopter emergency medical service case identification - a before and after study in children
  13. The Effect of a Freely Available Flipped Classroom Course on Health Care Worker Patient Safety Culture: A Prospective Controlled Study
  14. Patient and family satisfaction levels in the intensive care unit after elective cardiac surgery: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a preoperative patient education intervention
  15. Stimulation of the wrist acupuncture point PC6 for preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting
  16. Effect of Hypovitaminosis D on Postoperative Pain Outcomes and Short-Term Health-Related Quality of Life After Knee Arthroplasty
  17. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Adaptive Support Ventilation Mode to Wean Patients after Fast-track Cardiac Valvular Surgery
  18. Risk of Perioperative Respiratory Complications and Postoperative Morbidity in a Cohort of Adults Exposed to Passive Smoking
  19. Pharmacologic Agents for the Prevention and Treatment of Delirium in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
  20. Study protocol for the PHANTOM study: prehospital assessment of noninvasive tissue oximetry monitoring
  21. Factors associated with failure of enhanced recovery protocol in patients undergoing major hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery: a retrospective cohort study
  22. Synergistic Interaction between Fentanyl and Bupivacaine Given Intrathecally for Labor Analgesia
  23. Thoracic Paravertebral Block and Its Effects on Chronic Pain and Health-Related Quality of Life After Modified Radical Mastectomy
  24. Fast-Track Failure After Cardiac Surgery
  25. The Accuracy of Urinary Cotinine Immunoassay Test Strip as an Add-on Test to Self-Reported Smoking Before Major Elective Surgery
  26. Multi-dimensional response-probability-dose curves for bupivacaine and ropivacaine epidural labour analgesia
  27. Fast-track cardiac care for adult cardiac surgical patients
  28. Quantitative evaluation of the echo intensity of the median nerve and flexor muscles of the forearm in the young and the elderly
  29. Physician staffed helicopter emergency medical service dispatch via centralised control or directly by crew – case identification rates and effect on the Sydney paediatric trauma system
  30. Simulation of survivorship bias in observational studies on plasma to red blood cell ratios in massive transfusion for trauma
  31. Perioperative Systems as a quality model of perioperative medicine and surgical care
  32. Assessment of Trending Ability of Cardiac Output Monitors by Polar Plot Methodology
  33. Evaluation of a New Software Version of the FloTrac/Vigileo (Version 3.02) and a Comparison with Previous Data in Cirrhotic Patients Undergoing Liver Transplant Surgery
  34. Attitudes towards ethical problems in critical care medicine: the Chinese perspective
  35. Auricular Acupressure for Smoking Cessation: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
  36. A Critical Review of the Ability of Continuous Cardiac Output Monitors to Measure Trends in Cardiac Output
  37. Revised STandards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA): Extending the CONSORT Statement
  38. Determination and Comparison of Graded Dose–Response Curves for Epidural Bupivacaine and Ropivacaine for Analgesia in Laboring Nulliparous Women
  39. The Costs and Benefits of Extending the Role of the Acute Pain Service on Clinical Outcomes After Major Elective Surgery
  40. Revised STandards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA): Extending the CONSORT Statement
  41. Influence of general health and degree of surgical insult on long-term survival
  42. Stimulation of the wrist acupuncture point P6 for preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting
  43. Does Thromboelastography Predict Postoperative Thromboembolic Events? A Systematic Review of the Literature
  44. Tips for Teachers of Evidence-based Medicine: Making Sense of Decision Analysis Using a Decision Tree
  45. Evaluation of an uncalibrated arterial pulse contour cardiac output monitoring system in cirrhotic patients undergoing liver surgery
  46. ERRATUM
  47. A Randomized Double-Blinded Comparison of Phenylephrine and Ephedrine Infusion Combinations to Maintain Blood Pressure During Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery: The Effects on Fetal Acid-Base Status and Hemodynamic Control
  48. Changes in Medical Students’ Attitudes Towards End-of-Life Decisions Across Different Years of Medical Training
  49. Tips for Teachers of Evidence-based Medicine: Clinical Prediction Rules (CPRs) and Estimating Pretest Probability
  50. Tips for Teachers of Evidence-Based Medicine: Understanding Odds Ratios and Their Relationship to Risk Ratios
  51. Tips for Teachers of Evidence-Based Medicine: Adjusting for Prognostic Imbalances (Confounding Variables) in Studies on Therapy or Harm
  52. Tips for Teachers of Evidence-based Medicine: Making Sense of Diagnostic Test Results Using Likelihood Ratios
  53. Economic Evaluations of Acute Pain Service Programs
  54. Fentanyl dose?response curves when inserting the LMA Classic?laryngeal mask airway
  55. Effects of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on postoperative renal function in adults with normal renal function
  56. Importance of realistic sample size calculations and why the next randomized trial needs to be large and multicentered
  57. Effect of an integrated teaching intervention on clinical decision analysis: a randomized, controlled study of undergraduate medical students
  58. Alfentanil Dosage When Inserting the Classic Laryngeal Mask Airway
  59. Incidence and Risk of Adverse Perioperative Events among Surgical Patients Taking Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicines
  60. Publication bias affected the estimate of postoperative nausea in an acupoint stimulation systematic review
  61. Long-term antibiotics for preventing recurrent urinary tract infection in children
  62. A Systematic Review (Meta-Analysis) of the Accuracy of the Mallampati Tests to Predict the Difficult Airway
  63. Acupuncture and anaesthesia
  64. Educating patients about anaesthesia: effect of various modes on patientsʼ knowledge, anxiety and satisfaction
  65. Testing the Reliability of a New Ultrasonic Cardiac Output Monitor, the USCOM, by Using Aortic Flowprobes in Anesthetized Dogs
  66. A Comparison of Patients??? and Health Care Professionals??? Preferences for Symptoms During Immediate Postoperative Recovery and the Management of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting
  67. Possible Interaction Between Sevoflurane and Aloe vera
  68. Effects of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on postoperative renal function in adults with normal renal function
  69. Supplementary oxygen for elective Caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia: useful in prolonged uterine incision‐to‐delivery interval?†
  70. A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prophylactic Intravenous Ephedrine for the Prevention of Hypotension During Spinal Anesthesia for Elective Cesarean Delivery
  71. Level of prehospital care and risk of mortality in patients with and without severe blunt head injury
  72. A Systematic Review of the Safety and Effectiveness of Fast-track Cardiac Anesthesia
  73. The timing for the use of heparinase and thromboelastography to prevent excessive bleeding after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
  74. Educating Patients About Anesthesia: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials of Media-Based Interventions
  75. Heliox vs Air-Oxygen Mixtures for the Treatment of Patients With Acute Asthmaa
  76. Multivariate analysis of factors associated with umbilical arterial pH and standard base excess after Caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia*
  77. Agreements Between the Prothrombin Times of Blood Treated In Vitro with Heparinase During Cardiopulmonary Bypass (CPB) and Blood Sampled After CPB and Systemic Protamine
  78. A Quantitative, Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials of Ephedrine Versus Phenylephrine for the Management of Hypotension During Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery
  79. Estimating with confidence the risk of rare adverse events, including those with observed rates of zero☆
  80. What outcomes should be measured after anaesthesia?
  81. Comparative analysis of multiple-casualty incident triage algorithms
  82. Prospective evaluation of patients refused admission to an intensive care unit: triage, futility and outcome
  83. Efficacy of prehospital critical care teams for severe blunt head injury in the Australian setting
  84. Antibiotics for the prevention of urinary tract infection in children: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
  85. ADDITION OF PHYSICIANS TO PARAMEDIC HELICOPTER SERVICES DECREASES BLUNT TRAUMA MORTALITY
  86. The Use of Nonpharmacologic Techniques to Prevent Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting
  87. Early postoperative emergencies requiring an intensive care team interventionThe role of ASA physical status and after-hours surgery
  88. Intraabdominal Pressure and Gastric Intramucosal pH: Is There an Association?
  89. The Basic Knowledge Assessment Tool: Is It Useful?
  90. Intra-abdominal pressure measurement using a modified nasogastric tube: Description and validation of a new technique