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#PratoICM23: How to go viral on social media
My talk about the use of social media to share research at the 5th Collaborative Clinical Trials in Intensive Care Medicine Conference hosted by the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC) in collaboration with the Health Research…
How to extract data from figures for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Data extraction is an important part of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. However, it may occur that published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) present numerical data only in figures (e.g. Kaplan-Meier survival curves). While it is a good and common practice for…
Top 10 Cardiac Arrest Randomized Trials of 2022


Also this year (check out last year top 10 trials), I systematically collected and summarized in this infographic 10 RCTs that I considered the most relevant landmark trials of 2022 in the fields of Cardiac Arrest, CPR and Resuscitation Science.…
Manual pressure augmentation for defibrillation in cardiac arrest


Manual pressure augmentation (MPA) involves an operator wearing gloves pushing down on the sternal and apical patches at the time of energy delivery using either a clenched fist or open palm Potential effects of MPA Numerous studies have recently reported…
Extracorporeal CPR in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest


Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide. Despite the progress in the field of resuscitation, survival in patients treated with conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (basic life support and advanced life support) remains very low (<10%).…