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Management of critically ill patients with a pulmonary artery catheter did not reduce all cause mortality

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    Harvey S, Harrison DA, Singer M, et al. Assessment of the clinical effectiveness of pulmonary artery catheters in management of patients in intensive care (PAC-Man): a randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2005;366:472–7.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science

    Q In critically ill patients, does management with a pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) reduce hospital all cause mortality?

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    randomised controlled trial (Pulmonary Artery Catheters in Management of patients in intensive care [PAC-Man] trial).

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    concealed.

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    unblinded.

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    until discharge from the acute hospital ward.

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    65 intensive care units (ICUs) in the UK.

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    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 …

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    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.