Karen E. A. Burns

Research interests

Publications

• ESICM guidelines on acute respiratory distress syndrome: definition, phenotyping and respiratory support strategies

  Intensive Care Medicine · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-023-07050-7

• Ventilator Weaning and Discontinuation Practices for Critically Ill Patients

  JAMA · 2021 · 10.1001/jama.2021.2384

• Personalized mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome

  Critical Care · 2021 · 10.1186/s13054-021-03686-3

• The role for high flow nasal cannula as a respiratory support strategy in adults: a clinical practice guideline

  Intensive Care Medicine · 2020 · 10.1007/s00134-020-06312-y

• High-flow nasal cannula for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure in patients with COVID-19: systematic reviews of effectiveness and its risks of aerosolization, dispersion, and infection transmission

  Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie · 2020 · 10.1007/s12630-020-01740-2

• High-flow nasal cannula compared with conventional oxygen therapy for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: author's reply

  Intensive Care Medicine · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05658-2

• High flow nasal cannula compared with conventional oxygen therapy for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  Intensive Care Medicine · 2019 · 10.1007/s00134-019-05590-5

• Adjunctive Intermittent Pneumatic Compression for Venous Thromboprophylaxis

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2019 · 10.1056/nejmoa1816150

• Gender Parity in Critical Care Medicine

  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201701-0076cp

• Effort to Breathe with Various Spontaneous Breathing Trial Techniques. A Physiologic Meta-analysis

  American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 2016 · 10.1164/rccm.201607-1338oc

• Recovery after critical illness in patients aged 80 years or older: a multi-center prospective observational cohort study

  Intensive Care Medicine · 2015 · 10.1007/s00134-015-4028-2

• The Very Elderly Admitted to ICU

  Critical Care Medicine · 2015 · 10.1097/ccm.0000000000001024

• Comparison of standard and accelerated initiation of renal replacement therapy in acute kidney injury

  Kidney International · 2015 · 10.1038/ki.2015.184

• Changing Incidence and Outcomes Following Dialysis-Requiring Acute Kidney Injury Among Critically Ill Adults: A Population-Based Cohort Study

  American Journal of Kidney Diseases · 2014 · 10.1053/j.ajkd.2014.10.017

• Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Delirium in Mechanically Ventilated Adults*

  Critical Care Medicine · 2014 · 10.1097/ccm.0000000000000727

• Protocolized versus non-protocolized weaning for reducing the duration of mechanical ventilation in critically ill adult patients

  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2014 · 10.1002/14651858.cd006904.pub3

• Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation as a weaning strategy for intubated adults with respiratory failure

  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2013 · 10.1002/14651858.cd004127.pub3

• The Association Between Renal Replacement Therapy Modality and Long-Term Outcomes Among Critically Ill Adults With Acute Kidney Injury

  Critical Care Medicine · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1097/ccm.0000000000000042

• Risk of Chronic Dialysis and Death Following Acute Kidney Injury

  The American Journal of Medicine · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2012.01.016

• Hemofiltration compared to hemodialysis for acute kidney injury: systematic review and meta-analysis

  Critical Care · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1186/cc11458

• Use of weaning protocols for reducing duration of mechanical ventilation in critically ill adult patients: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ · 2011 · 10.1136/bmj.c7237

• Clinical practice guidelines for the use of noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation and noninvasive continuous positive airway pressure in the acute care setting

  Canadian Medical Association Journal · 2011 · 10.1503/cmaj.100071

• Mortality associated with withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy for patients with severe traumatic brain injury: a Canadian multicentre cohort study

  Canadian Medical Association Journal · 2011 · 10.1503/cmaj.101786

• Quality of care in for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes: systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ · 2009 · 10.1136/bmj.b2732

• A guide for the design and conduct of self-administered surveys of clinicians

  Canadian Medical Association Journal · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080372

• The design and interpretation of pilot trials in clinical research in critical care

  Critical Care Medicine · 2008 · 10.1097/ccm.0b013e3181920e33

• Effect of nitric oxide on oxygenation and mortality in acute lung injury: systematic review and meta-analysis

  BMJ · 2007 · 10.1136/bmj.39139.716794.55

• Randomized trials stopped early for benefit: a systematic review.

  PubMed · 2005 · 10.1001/jama.294.17.2203

• Perioperative N-acetylcysteine to Prevent Renal Dysfunction in High-Risk Patients Undergoing CABG Surgery

  JAMA · 2005 · 10.1001/jama.294.3.342

Current projects

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