In terms of mean HU of the tagged fluid (excluding the least tagged layer if tagging was layered), there was no significant difference among the four regimens, either overall or between the proximal/distal colon (P = 0.14 0.86).
If necessary, the chart was moved closer to the patients to determine whether the converted logMAR unit changed at least 0.1; (2) any qualitative change in the appearance of the OCT images that suggested recurrent fluid in the macula including enlargement of a PED or (3) persistent fluid excluding persistent PED on OCT 1 month after the previous injection.
Overall with only 2.2% of the required information size, the number needed to treat was 10 patients (95% confidence interval: the number needed to treat is >4 and the number needed to harm is >19) for the comparison of albumin with colloid fluid, excluding studies at high risk of bias.
Overall, with 80.5% of the required information size, the number needed to treat was 37 patients (95% confidence interval: number needed to treat is >18 and the number needed to harm is >297) for the comparison of albumin with control fluid excluding trials at high risk of bias.
Supportive drugs such as antiemetics, antidiarrhoeals, steroids, intravenous hydration fluids were excluded.
For this study confirmed sepsis was assessed from ≈ 1.0 ml peripherical blood with Peds Plus/F culture vials processed by Bactec 9050 System (Becton Dickinson, Inc., USA); since we selected only blood culture, other body fluids such as CSF, pleural and peritoneal fluid were excluded.
Based on the results in the AC protein comparison experiment, AC fluid from patients with identified blood protein haemoglobin in the cyst fluid was excluded from this analysis (patients 7, 12, 13 and 14).
Pockets of cerebrospinal fluid were excluded; blood vessels were transected unless they were prominent or did not extend into the hippocampal body.
Only formalin-fixed specimens were selected, while specimens fixed in Bouin's fluid were excluded.
However, the French RCT only included women with abnormal CTG in labor with or without meconium-stained amniotic fluid, but excluded normal CTG cases 10, criteria that in many cases are violations of the ST analysis clinical guidelines and recommendations 23, 24.
