Nebulized lidocaine and fentanyl before sevoflurane induction of anesthesia in congenital diaphragmatic hernia repair: Prospective double blind randomized study

Clinical trials and outcome reporting in congenital diaphragmatic hernia overlook long‐term health and functional outcomes—A plea for core outcomes

“…Excluded studies were duplicates, abstract‐only papers, manuscripts published before year 2000, those not in the English language, animal studies, and those describing pre‐natal CDH interventions. We included 27 studies 13–39 of which 13 were RCTs 13–25 and 14 articles were observational studies 26–39 . Figure 2 shows the PRISMA flowchart for the study review.…”

“…• There is great need for international consensus on CDH outcome reporting. of which 13 were RCTs [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] and 14 articles were observational studies. [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] Figure 2 shows the PRISMA flowchart for the study review.…”

“…Overall, the studies included 2596 CDH patients. The mean number of index CDH patients was 96 per publication (range 5-691); 13/27 studies were RCTs, [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] and 14/27 were observational studies [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] ; 7/27 studies were multicentre collaborative works. Studies emerged from a variety of countries worldwide including the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, USA, Canada, Japan, Egypt, and Australia.…”