The largest trial of over 500 women used "need for an additional uterotonic agent" as the primary outcome measure.
The most up-to-date definitions use need for invasive mechanical ventilation or septic shock, requiring vasopressors, as absolute indicators for direct admission to an ICU (Table 1).
At the time of intubation, clinical data including reason for intubation, interventions including sedative agent used, need for and doses of vasopressors were recorded.
The collected data included patient demographics, anatomical location and type of biliary leak, technical success, treatment outcomes, type of stents used, need for reintervention and adverse events.
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In a second analysis we fitted a generalized linear model for the binomial family with a log link to control for possible confounding effects of small for gestational age birth, antibiotic use, need for resuscitation, sex and cesarean delivery.
The combination was associated with significantly deeper white blood cell and neutrophil nadirs, a significant increase in life-threatening thrombocytopaenia, longer hospital stay, higher incidence of intravenous antibiotic use, need for more transfusions, and a greater number of toxic deaths.
The blood glucose measuring devices we used needed calibration for several previously unrecognized interferences.
Autonomy need was measured using the Need for Autonomy (NA) subscale of the brief version of the Barriers to Adolescents Seeking Help scale (BASH-B) [ 20].
