Sentence examples for restrictive arm from inspiring English sources

Patients in the restrictive arm received half the volume of transfused blood that patients in the liberal arm did.

The development of new organ dysfunction in the ICU was significantly less in patients randomly assigned to the restrictive arm (Table 1).

Surprisingly, when outcome data were analyzed, patients in the restrictive arm exhibited a strong trend toward improved 30-day survival and a significant improvement in hospital survival.

However, more experienced respondents were less willing to accept lower Hb thresholds in the restrictive arm of a randomized, controlled trial (grade 4 SAH, β = 0.01, P = 0.009; DCI, β = 0.02, P = 0.01).

The mean hemoglobin transfusion trigger was 8.2 g/dL and in 30% of cases it was >9 g/dL, so this ICU was significantly more liberal than the restrictive arm of the TRICC trial [ 3].

Although the placebo group in the Corwin trial (n = 652) was slightly larger than the restrictive arm in the TRICC study (n = 418), they were similar in their mean age, gender distribution and APACHE II scores.

Already there is tension between America and Russia over the continuation of the restrictive arms embargo imposed by the UN Security Council in 2010.Less than a fortnight after the framework deal was reached on April 2nd, Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, lifted a ban on supplying the S-300 air-defence missile system to Iran under the terms of a $800m contract signed in 2007.

While many of the completed prospective randomized clinical trials favor the non-inferiority of a restrictive transfusion threshold near a hemoglobin concentration (Hb) of 70 80 g/L [22 24], more recent analysis of these data suggest that low Hb levels in the restrictive arms of these studies may be associated with increased organ injury and mortality in specific patient populations [25, 26].

Yet in an RCT in general ICU patients, liberal and restrictive arms will include both of these types of patients.

In a landmark study, Yunos NM and coworkers [ 13] only reported that chloride-restrictive arm received significantly less amount of chloride infusion during study period (496 vs 694 mmol per patient), but did not report serum chloride levels in both arms.

Early data from the TRICS trial in cardiac surgery also demonstrated a trend to increased adverse events including stroke (3 vs. 0) and death (4 vs. 1) in the restrictive study arm [46].