Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 166

Welcome to the 166th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature. This edition contains 5 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Soren Rudolph, Justin Morgenstern and, of course, Chris Nickson. Find more R&R in the Fastlane reviews in the R&R Archive, read more about the R&R project or check out the full list of R&R contributors This Edition’s R&R Hall of Famer Education Hodgson CL, Bailey M, Bellomo R, Berney S, Buhr H, Denehy L, et al. A Binational Multicenter Pilot Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial of Early Goal-Directed Mobilization in the ICU. Crit Care Med. 2016;44(6):1145-52. PMID: 26968024 This clever pilot study was a randomised control trial which involved fifty critically ill adults mechanically ventilated for greater than 24 hours in 5 ICU’s in Australia and New Zealand.  No difference was observed in the length of inpatient stay between groups (assigned to either early goal directed mobilisation or to standard care (control)) and certainly this study had not been powered to show this anyway.  The most important findings were that early mobilisation is safe and feasible. Additionally, the patients in...
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