Hidden Truths in Medical Research. What We Need to Know from Meta-Analyses and Why We Need to Be Careful? A Paradigm from Goal-Directed Fluid Therapy in Clinical Practice

Michele Claudio Vassallo

Cardiac Anaesthesia and ICU, National Health System, Via Rocco Fodale 7, 91016 Erice (TP), Italy

Michele Claudio Vassallo, Cardiac Anaesthesia and ICU, National Health System, Via Rocco Fodale 7, 91016 Erice (TP), Italy

Keywords: Clinical Practice; Fluid Therapy; Therapeutic Strategy

Abstract

Throughout the last century investigators have studied and debated the usefulness of many pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions in medical practice. In time our knowledge of evidence based medicine has grown, but translating this amount of information in complex systems is not effortless [1].

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