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I don’t think it was site selection, although some of our best recruiting sites were maybe in somewhat less diverse parts of the country. Interesting to reflect on whether there was any lack of equipoise.

Interesting point, Jack. If it reflected the UK population of ventilated patients (see supplement) we’d have expected more like 500 black patients so yes, somewhat under-represented but we would not have anticipated large numbers.

Conservative Oxygen Therapy With Mechanical Ventilation This randomized clinical trial assesses whether reducing supplemental oxygen to a peripheral oxygen saturation target of 90% would reduce mortality among critically ill adults receiving mechanical ven...

16,500 patients randomised to #UKROXTrial presented just now at #CCR25 and simultaneously published in @jama.com

No difference in 90d mortality between target SpO2 88-92 with reduced exposure to supplemental O2 vs usual care

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UK-ROx: No harm (or benefit) from a conservative oxygenation strategy in 16,500 mechanically ventilated critically ill adults. #CCR25

Figure 2. Oxygen Exposure and Arterial Oxygenation by Treatment Group in Patients With Enhanced Data Collection

Conservative oxygen therapy with a target SpO2 of 90% did not reduce 90-day all-cause mortality compared to usual oxygen therapy in mechanically ventilated adult patients.

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Professor Dan Martin presenting the UK - ROX trial at Critical Care Reviews 2025

Here we go… #UKROXtrial #CCR25

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📍 ~100 🇬🇧 ICUs
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The Society and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) are updating the Guidelines for the Provision of Intensive Care Services (GPICS).

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Shocked to wake up to this news. Condolences to Rinaldo’s family and friends, and all our friends and colleagues in the ANZICS community. Vale Rinaldo.

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Perfect demonstration of why a control is essential…

Text reads: Principles of sharing clinical trial results with participants. 1. Trial teams should pro-actively offer overall study results to all clinical trial participants, irrespective of what the results show. 2. Participants should be given the choice of whether to receive research results. 3. Results should be offered to participants in a timely manner. 4. Trial teams should manage participants’ expectations around when the results will be available. 5. Results should be offered in a way that is accessible to participants, both in terms of the communication mechanism and the content. 6. Patient and public involvement is essential in sharing results with participants. 7. Sharing results with participants requires resources. 8. Consideration needs to be given to potential barriers/challenges to sharing results with participants from the planning stage of the study.

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I think you’ll find 22/7 is a much more rational date to celebrate #piday

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Hype, hallucination, hope – what might AI mean for our health? In our fifth REAL Challenge annual lecture, Hetan Shah will warn of the risk of rushing breathlessly to unleash technology. He will explore how policymakers can navigate the hype and critically assess...

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Severity of Impaired Oxygenation and Conservative... : Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2% was associated with a shorter duration of organ support and greater survival, compared with Spo2 greater than 94%, in mechanically ventilated children following unplanned admission to PICU. We inve...

Post-hoc analysis of Oxy-PICU by baseline severity of gas exchange - no detectable heterogeneity of treatment effect.

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Longer-term survival, quality of life, and cost-effectiveness of conservative versus liberal oxygenation targets in critically ill children: a pre-specified analysis from Oxy-PICU, a multicentre, open... Peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) above 94% is typical in children in paediatric intensive critical care units (PICUs) who are receiving invasive ve…

1 year follow-up and health economics of Oxy-PICU.
All point estimates still favour conservative oxygenation but differences are not statistically significant with the slightly smaller sample size.

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But seriously, while some of us care a lot about this, the evidence (not least the latest update to the Declaration of Helsinki) suggests others less so

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The third trial result for #CCR25 in Titanic Belfast in June is the UK-Rox Trial

Evaluating the clinical & cost-effectiveness of a conservative approach to oxygen therapy for invasively ventilated adults in ICU

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Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does) All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.

All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is. 🧪

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Don’t think I’d have labelled every increment of +/-25% though - seems to go against that multiplicative argument. -50%, -33%, +50%,+100% would have reinforced it better.

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Thanks. If fully pre-specified, then this result is truly quite remarkable (regardless of the possible confounding).

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