Tue April 30 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Report: No Time to Wait: Securing the future from drug-resistant infections – World Health Organization (free PDF)

News Release: New report calls for urgent action to avert antimicrobial resistance crisis – World Health Organization (free)

Commentary: UN report calls for urgent action against antimicrobial resistance – CIDRAP (free)

2 – Unscheduled Procedural Sedation: A Multidisciplinary Consensus Practice Guideline – Annals of Emergency Medicine (free)

3 – Heart failure in chronic kidney disease: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference – Kidney International (free) (via @paomorejon)

4 – Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors in Child and Adolescent Health, 1990 to 2017: Findings From the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2017 Study – JAMA Pediatrics (free)

Commentaries: Childhood mortality declining globally but disability on the rise – Reuters (free) AND Child and adolescent deaths decreased by half worldwide since 1990  Journalist’s Resource (free)

5 – Association Between Peripheral Neuropathy and Exposure to Oral Fluoroquinolone or Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Therapy – JAMA Neurology (free for a limited period)

Editorial: On the Association Between Fluoroquinolones and Neuropathy (free)

Related: Committee Recommends New Restrictions on the use of Fluoroquinolones (free report and commentaries)

6 – Restrictive strategy versus usual care for cholecystectomy in patients with gallstones and abdominal pain (SECURE): a multicentre, randomised, parallel-arm, non-inferiority trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Applying Strict Criteria for Gallbladder Removal Doesn’t Improve Pain – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

7 – Effects of repeat prenatal corticosteroids given to women at risk of preterm birth: An individual participant data meta-analysis – PLOS Medicine (free)

Source: EvidenceAlerts

“Our findings suggest that to provide clinical benefit with the least effect on growth, the number of repeat treatment courses should be limited to a maximum of three and the total dose to between 24 mg and 48 mg.”

8 – Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: an overview of systematic reviews – BMJ Open (free)

Commentary: NNT with statins is 400 for lower risk eligible patients, researchers estimate – Pulse (free)

9 – Effect of Gastric Residual Evaluation on Enteral Intake in Extremely Preterm Infants: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Pediatrics (free for a limited period)

10 – Release of “13 Reasons Why” associated with increase in youth suicide rates – NIH News Releases (free)

Original Study: Association Between the Release of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why and Suicide Rates in the United States: An Interrupted Times Series Analysis – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Related Study: Internet Searches for Suicide Following the Release of “13 Reasons Why” (free study and commentaries)

 “NIH-supported study highlights the importance of responsible portrayal of suicide by the media.”