Daily Archives: April 5, 2018
Perspective: disruptive physician behavior recognition and intervention
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:45h | UTC
Meta-analysis: reducing falls in older adults recently discharged from hospital
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:49h | UTCReducing falls in older adults recently discharged from hospital: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Age and Ageing (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Fall prevention gets harder when elderly leave hospital – Reuters (free)
Perspective: it’s time for health care journalists to report their sources’ conflicts of interest
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:43h | UTC
Review: understanding and communicating risk
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:48h | UTCUnderstanding and communicating risk – Canadian Family Physician (free)
Systematic review: ivermectin and permethrin for treating scabies
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:41h | UTCIvermectin and permethrin for treating scabies – Cochrane Library (free)
Summary: Ivermectin and permethrin for treating scabies – Cochrane Library (free)
Systematic review: inhaled anti-pseudomonal antibiotics in cystic fibrosis
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:42h | UTCInhaled anti-pseudomonal antibiotics for long-term therapy in cystic fibrosis – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Summary: Inhaling antibiotics to treat lung infection in people with cystic fibrosis – Cochrane Library (free)
Randomized controled trial: outcomes of goal-directed haemodynamic therapy in surgical patients
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:39h | UTCSource: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Position Statement: Panton–Valentine leukocidin-positive Staphylococcus aureus
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:36h | UTCSource: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Cohort study: dietary patterns and risk of cancers of the colon and rectum
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:40h | UTCCommentaries: Links between eating red meat and distal colon cancer in women – eCancer News (free) AND Study: Red meat linked to colon cancer in women – UPI (free)
Meta-analysis: videolaryngoscopy vs direct laryngoscopy for emergency orotracheal intubation
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:37h | UTCSource: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Review: perioperative management of patients with disorders of the QT interval
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:35h | UTCSource: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Review: hyperchloraemia in sepsis
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:32h | UTCHyperchloraemia in sepsis – Annals of Intensive Care (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Review: intravenous fluid therapy for hospitalized and critically ill children
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:33h | UTCSource: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Review: perioperative gastrointestinal problems in the ICU
5 Apr, 2018 | 18:34h | UTCPerioperative gastrointestinal problems in the ICU – Anesthesiology Intensive Therapy (free PDF)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Thu, April 5 – 10 Stories of The Day!
5 Apr, 2018 | 00:38h | UTC
Commentary: Promoting Physical Activity in Routine Health Care: Time to Walk the Talk (free)
Top Ten Things to Know: Routine Assessment and Promotion of Physical Activity in Healthcare Settings (free PDF)
2 – Tax sugar, alcohol and tobacco to help the poor, say experts – The Guardian (free)
See also: To Improve Global Health, Tax the Things that are Killing Us (free policies, articles and commentaries)
3 – Preconception Blood Pressure Levels and Reproductive Outcomes in a Prospective Cohort of Women Attempting Pregnancy – Hypertension (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Higher blood pressure before pregnancy may increase miscarriage risk – American Heart Association, via ScienceDaily (free) AND High blood pressure before pregnancy linked to heightened miscarriage risk – OnMedica (free) AND Slightly high blood pressure before pregnancy tied to miscarriage risk – Reuters (free) AND Higher Blood Pressure Before Conception Tied to Miscarriage – MedPage Today (free registration required)
4 – Postnatal Zika virus infection is associated with persistent abnormalities in brain structure, function, and behavior in infant macaques – Science Translational Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Monkey study suggests Zika infection in infancy could cause brain damage – STAT (free) AND Zika Exposure Even after Birth May Lead to Brain Damage – Scientific American (free)
5 – Associations of Bariatric Surgery With Changes in Interpersonal Relationship Status: Results From 2 Swedish Cohort Studies – JAMA Surgery (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Relationship changes after bariatric surgery – University of Gothenburg, via EurekAlert (free) AND Big weight loss may bring big relationship changes – UPI (free)
6 – Time to Endovascular Treatment and Outcome in Acute Ischemic Stroke: MR CLEAN Registry Results – Circulation (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Time to endovascular therapy predicted functional outcome after stroke in registry study – ACP Hospitalist (free)
“Every hour of delay from stroke onset to the start of endovascular therapy resulted in a 5.3% decreased probability of functional independence” (from ACP Hospitalist)
7 – Change in Overweight from Childhood to Early Adulthood and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Heavy kids who normalize weight in childhood can avoid extra diabetes risk – Reuters (free) AND Normalizing Weight By Puberty May Drop Diabetes Risk Later – Medscape (free registration required)
8 – Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab versus Sunitinib in Advanced Renal-Cell Carcinoma – NEJM (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Quick Take Video Summary: Sunitinib or Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab for Renal-Cell Carcinoma (free)
“Overall survival and objective response rates were significantly higher with nivolumab plus ipilimumab”.
9 – Review: Management of Left Main Coronary Artery Disease – Journal of the American Heart Association (free for a limited period)
“New work in @bmj_latest shows poverty increases ageing. Measured by walking speed. 60 y.o. men of lower social class walk like 66 y.o. men of higher social class. As important as physical inactivity, obesity or diabetes. Worse than smoking”. (via @astaines see Tweet)