Patients with evidence of non-pulmonary system failure at the time of randomization and sepsis-induced ARDS were excluded.
"Any bias associated with the women who had been excluded at the start of the study cannot be repaired retrospectively by guessing whether someone had cancer at the time of randomization," he said.
Investigators identified subjects as having carotid stenosis not requiring revascularization at the time of randomization.
Patients were excluded if they had known or suspected complicated infection at the time of randomization.
At the time of randomization, all inclusion criteria must be met.
Mean baseline dBP, obtained at the time of randomization in the trial, was 78 mmHg (SD 13 mmHg).
These children had been immunized once or twice in early childhood with pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine and were reimmunized at the time of randomization.
Matching on the basis of a propensity score was used to compare patients who received and who did not receive amiodarone at the time of randomization.
However, it should be emphasized that most patients had already been efficiently resuscitated and restored tissue oxygenation at the time of randomization.
In addition, patients had to take a mood stabilizer at the time of randomization or agree to begin treatment with a mood stabilizer.
Table 1 shows main demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients of the intention-to-treat population at the time of randomization.
