Table 1 Anesthesia-related intervention themes in multicenter randomized controlled trials (n studies = 445, n patients = 336 966)
From: Mapping multicenter randomized controlled trials in anesthesiology: a scoping review
Intervention category | Number of studies (%) | Number of patients (%) |
|---|---|---|
Anesthetic technique | 80 (12.5) | 48 455 (7.9) |
Behavioral change | 4 (0.7) | 438 (0.07) |
Dialysis | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
Glucose control | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
Intravenous (IV) fluids | 12 (1.9) | 3 671 (0.5) |
Medical device | 6 (1.1) | 1 166 (0.1) |
Monitoring | 11 (1.7) | 15 912 (2.6) |
Nutritional | 20 (3.1) | 4 731 (0.7) |
Pharmacotherapy | 361 (56.6) | 244 610 (39.7) |
Physiotherapy | 4 (0.7) | 994 (0.2) |
Preoperative procedure | 18 (2.8) | 9904 (1.6) |
Protocol/guidelines implementation | 12 (1.8) | 159 134 (25.8) |
Temperature management | 5 (0.8) | 2 451 (0.4) |
Testing | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
Transfusion | 19 (3.0) | 13 994 (2.3) |
Ventilation | 19 (3.0) | 11 817 (1.9) |
Combination of interventions | 67 (10.5) | 98 641 (16.0) |
Total | 638 | 615 907 |