Cochrane · systematic review · CD007160

Oxygen therapy for acute myocardial infarction

Cabello, JB, Burls, A, Emparanza, JI, et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2016 · Cochrane Library

HeartAMSTAR 2: not assessed
SoF tableOnly the outcomes this review put in its Summary of Findings table are listed (the Cochrane Handbook caps them at about seven per comparison). Its other analyses are not shown here.
Questions
7
current version
GRADE rated
7
No studies
0
Included studies
NR
No studies 0 · 0%Ungraded 0 · 0%Very low 3 · 42.9%Low 4 · 57.1%Moderate 0 · 0%High 0 · 0%

Ungraded means an effect was reported without a GRADE rating; it is not a gap. No studies means the review found nothing to answer the question. The six categories are a display order, not a score.

Questions and results

Oxygen versus air for acute myocardial infarction

Population: people with acute myocardial infarction
7 questions
OutcomeEffectEvidenceStatus / GRADE
All‐cause mortality in hospital for participants with AMI
Oxygen vs air
RR 1.02 [0.52, 1.98]4 studies · 871 participantsVery low
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision
All‐cause mortality in hospital for all participants (including those without confirmed AMI)
Oxygen vs air
RR 0.99 [0.5, 1.95]4 studies · 1123 participantsVery low
Downgraded: imprecision
All‐cause mortality in hospital for all participants (including those without confirmed AMI) trials done in the revascularisation era
Oxygen vs air
RR 0.58 [0.24, 1.39]3 studies · 923 participantsLow
Downgraded: imprecision
Opiate use (as a proxy measure for pain) for all participants on ITT (including those without confirmed AMI)
Oxygen vs air
RR 0.97 [0.78, 1.2]2 studies · 250 participantsLow
Downgraded: risk of bias, indirectness
Recurrent myocardial infarction (or ischaemia)
Oxygen vs air
RR 1.67 [0.94, 2.99]2 studies · 578 participantsLow
Downgraded: imprecision, inconsistency
Infarct size CK and other enzymes
Oxygen vs air
no estimate extracted0 studies · 2 participantsLow
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency, indirectness
Infarct size by MRI (estimated 6 months after AMI)
Oxygen vs air
no estimate extracted0 studies · 2 participantsVery low
Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency, indirectness