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Designing and conducting a randomized trial for pandemic critical illness: the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

Intensive Care Med

January 2012

General ICU, Raymond Poincaré Hospital, AP-HP, University of Versailles SQ, 104 boulevard Raymond Poincaré, 92380 Garches, France.

Purpose: To analyze the hurdles in implementing a randomized trial of corticosteroids for severe 2009 H1N1 influenza infections.

Methods: This was an investigator-led, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial of corticosteroids in ICU patients with 2009 H1N1 influenza pneumonia requiring mechanical ventilation. The feasibility of and hurdles in designing and initiating a phase III trial in a short-lived pandemic crisis were analyzed.

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