Daily Archives: January 20, 2017
Fri, Jan 20 – Top 10 Medical News Stories
20 Jan, 2017 | 00:01h | UTC
2 – A users’ guide to the 2016 Surviving Sepsis Guidelines – Intensive Care Medicine
3 – Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock – JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis
Contradicting current guidelines, patients with stable coronary artery disease without heart failure did not benefit from ACE inhibitors or RAS blockers when compared with other active controls (calcium antagonists, thiazide diuretics, and conventional treatment)
6 – No Survival Advantage with ACE Inhibitors in Stable CAD: Blocking RAS pathway not better than other preventive strategies – MedPage Today (free registration required)
7 – Review: Challenges in Infective Endocarditis – Journal of the American College of Cardiology
10 – Mosquito-Disseminated Insecticide for Citywide Vector Control and Its Potential to Block Arbovirus Epidemics: Entomological Observations and Modeling Results from Amazonian Brazil – PLOS Medicine See also a related commentary on CIDRAP