Corticosteroids for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome; systematic review and meta-analysis.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000041007
- Lead Sponsor
- JA General Hospital.
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
- Cardiac edema - Hypercapnia without hypoxia - Contraindication of steroids - Diseases which steroids is effective - History of steroids use by some months before inclusion - No ventilation - Acute lung injury associated with immaturity and congenital malformations
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Others,meta-analysis etc
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Hospital mortality, the number of ventilator free days, and incidence of infection. If there will be no data of hospital mortality, we will collect 28-60days mortality as short-term mortality. Incidence of infection will collect data of the number of patients with infection during hospital stay. Hospital mortality and incidence of infection will integrate risk ratio. VFDs will integrate mean difference.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ICU mortality, ICU length of stay (LOS), hospital LOS, ventilator days and oxygenation. We will collect data of P/F ratio on study day 7 as oxygenation. ICU mortality will integrate risk ratio. ICU LOS, hospital LOS, ventilator days and P/F ratio will integrate mean difference.