- The overall quality of evidence supporting interventions to reduce surgical site infection in adult heart surgery is poor. Studies used varying definitions for wound infection, which meant that it ...

Nearly half (47%) of all clinical trials remain unpublished. Whether a trial is published and how long it takes is influenced by whether there are positive results, how large the trial is and if it is ...

• Fenoldopam (a medicine that rapidly widens and relaxes blood vessels) probably reduces the risk of developing acute kidney injury (AKI) (a condition where the kidneys suddenly lose their ability to ...

Reduced heart function is a potentially fatal complication after heart surgery. A possible approach to prevent this complication is treatment with drugs that stimulate the contraction of the heart (so ...

Prophylactic TXA in addition to standard care during caesarean birth results in little to no difference in estimated blood loss ≥ 1000 mL and likely results in a slight reduction in calculated blood ...

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Perineal HAase injection during the second stage of labour may result in a lower incidence of perineal trauma (tears or episiotomy, or both) compared with no intervention, but not compared with ...

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: Primarily, to determine the effectiveness of a virtual reality (VR) intervention compared to an alternative or ...

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Hay evidencia de un único ensayo aleatorizado amplio que indica que el metotrexato intramuscular (25 mg/semana) proporciona un beneficio en cuanto a la inducción de la remisión y la interrupción ...

Mike: Hello, I’m Mike Clarke, podcast editor for the Cochrane Library. Globally, postpartum haemorrhage is responsible for a quarter of maternal deaths after childbirth. Tears of the perineum, which ...