Shunting vs no shunting: Any stroke during surgery (best‐case)
Shunting showed no clear difference in any stroke during surgery (best‐case) compared with no shunting (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Shunting vs no shunting Any stroke during surgery (best‐case) · patients with symptomatic or asymptomatic carotid disease Shunting showed no clear difference in any stroke during surgery (best‐case) compared with no shunting (low certainty). Routine or selective carotid artery shunting for carotid endarterectomy (and different methods of monitoring… (2022) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | OR 0.42 [0.16, 1.07] | 3 studies · 655 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Routine or selective carotid artery shunting for carotid endarterectomy (and different methods of monitoring in selective shunting) 2022 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.