Prophylactic corticosteroids vs placebo or no corticosteroids: Pulmonary complications (as defined by study authors, including pneumonia, embolism, reduced pulmonary function, prolonged ventilation, and pleural effusion, during the index hospital admission)
Prophylactic corticosteroids may leads to lower pulmonary complications (as defined by study authors, including… compared with placebo or no corticosteroids (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Prophylactic corticosteroids vs placebo or no corticosteroids Pulmonary complications (as defined by study authors, including pneumonia, embolism, reduced pulmonary function, prolonged ventilation, and pleural effusion, during the index hospital admission) · adults diagnosed with coronary artery disease or cardiac valve disease, and candidates for cardiac surgery with… Prophylactic corticosteroids may leads to lower pulmonary complications (as defined by study authors, including… compared with placebo or no corticosteroids (low certainty). Prophylactic corticosteroids for cardiopulmonary bypass in adult cardiac surgery (2024) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.88 [0.78, 0.99] | 18 studies · 13549 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prophylactic corticosteroids for cardiopulmonary bypass in adult cardiac surgery 2024 · 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.