title: [Update of critical care medicine 2013].
abstract: The present review concluded remarkable globe clinical achievements in the field of critical care medicine during 2013. Briefly, new international sepsis management guideline, high frequency oscillatory ventilation, hydroxyethyl starch, immune-nutritional therapy, fecal transplantation and infection controlling became the highlighting topics. Additionally, it is also worthy to note the apparent disparity in the results between meta-analyses suggesting a treatment advantage and following large-scale randomized trials that have failed to detect such differences in treatment outcomes. Nonetheless, we still expect the emerging of ongoing investigations may provide clarity in these area..
authors: Department of Critical Care Medicine of First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116012, Liaoning, China. Corresponding author: Huang Wei, Email: huangwei9898@163.com.
authors: Wei
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authors: Huang
authors: Xianyao
authors: X
authors: Wan
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome