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Milrinone for cardiac dysfunction in critically ill adult patients: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis.

Gertjan KosterHanneke J BekemaJørn WetterslevChristian GluudFrederik KeusIwan C C van der Horst
Published in: Intensive care medicine (2016)
The current evidence on the use of milrinone in critically ill adult patients with cardiac dysfunction suffers from considerable risks of both bias and random error and demonstrates no benefits. The use of milrinone for the treatment of critically ill patients with cardiac dysfunction can be neither recommended nor refuted. Future randomised clinical trials need to be sufficiently large and designed to have low risk of bias.
Keyphrases
  • clinical trial
  • phase ii
  • open label
  • phase iii
  • systematic review
  • study protocol
  • left ventricular
  • oxidative stress
  • double blind
  • meta analyses
  • placebo controlled
  • heart failure
  • risk assessment
  • replacement therapy