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Q In critically ill patients, does management with a pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) reduce hospital all cause mortality?
METHODS
Design:
randomised controlled trial (Pulmonary Artery Catheters in Management of patients in intensive care [PAC-Man] trial).
Allocation:
concealed.
Blinding:
unblinded.
Follow up period:
until discharge from the acute hospital ward.
Setting:
65 intensive care units (ICUs) in the UK.
Patients:
1041 patients (mean age 65 y, 57% men) who were admitted to adult ICUs and identified by the treating clinicians as patients who should be managed with a PAC. Exclusion criteria included …
Footnotes
For correspondence: Professor M Singer, University College London, London, UK. m.singer{at}ucl.ac.uk
Source of funding: UK National Health Service Research and Development Health Technology Assessment Programme.