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Daily Archives: February 25, 2019

Guideline: Diagnosis and Management of Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:20h | UTC

Diagnosis and management of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding: guidelines from the British Society of Gastroenterology – Gut (free)

Related: ACG Clinical Guideline: Management of Patients With Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding (free)

 


Mon, February 25 – 10 Stories of The Day!

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:32h | UTC

 

1 – Diagnosis and management of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding: guidelines from the British Society of Gastroenterology – Gut (free)

Related: ACG Clinical Guideline: Management of Patients With Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding (free)

 

2 – Copenhagen Consensus statement 2019: physical activity and ageing – British Journal of Sports Medicine (free)

 

3 – Best Practices for Evaluation and Treatment of Agitated Children and Adolescents (BETA) in the Emergency Department: Consensus Statement of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry – West Journal of Emergency Medicine (free PDF)

Related Guideline: Evaluation and Management of Children and Adolescents With Acute Mental Health or Behavioral Problems. Part I: Common Clinical Challenges of Patients With Mental Health and/or Behavioral Emergencies – Pediatrics (free)

 

4 – Association Between Push-up Exercise Capacity and Future Cardiovascular Events Among Active Adult Men – JAMA Network Open (free)

Commentaries: Push-up capacity linked with lower incidence of cardiovascular disease events among men – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (free) AND Struggling to do push-ups? You may be at risk of heart disease – NHS (free) AND How Many Push-Ups Can You Do? It May Be a Good Predictor of Heart Health – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

 

5 – FDA adds Boxed Warning for increased risk of death with gout medicine Uloric (febuxostat) – U.S. Food & Drug Administration (free)

Commentaries: FDA Adds Boxed Warning About CV Risks to Gout Drug Febuxostat – TCTMD (free) AND FDA: Gout Drug Raises Death Risk – MedPage Today (free)

Related Research: Cardiovascular Safety of Febuxostat or Allopurinol in Patients with Gout (free study and commentaries)

 

6 – Updates in Management and Timing of Dialysis in Acute Kidney Injury – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free PDF for a limited period)

Related Research: Early vs. Delayed Dialysis in Acute Kidney Injury (link to abstract and commentary)

 

7 – Pharmacological treatments for generalised anxiety disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Pharmacotherapy for Generalized Anxiety: An Update – NEJM Journal Watch (free for a limited period)

 

8 – Strategy for a globally coordinated response to a priority neglected tropical disease: Snakebite envenoming – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (free)

News Release: New WHO strategy aims to halve the global impact of snakebite – The University of Melbourne (free)

Related: Global Mapping of Vulnerability to Snakebite Envenoming (free study and commentaries) AND Why Are So Many People Still Dying from Snake Bites? (free) AND Snakebite finally makes a WHO list of top global health priorities (free) AND Snakebites Make The List Of ‘Neglected Tropical Diseases’ (free)

 

9 – Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Women With Breast Cancer – Circulation (free)

Related: AHA Scientific Statement on Cardio-Oncology (several guidelines on the subject)

 

10 – A Review of the Role of Breast Arterial Calcification for Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in Women – Circulation (free)

Commentary: Breast Calcifications May Hold Important Clues for CV Risk Stratification – TCTMD (free)

 


Best Practices for Evaluation and Treatment of Agitated Children and Adolescents in the Emergency Department

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:18h | UTC

Best Practices for Evaluation and Treatment of Agitated Children and Adolescents (BETA) in the Emergency Department: Consensus Statement of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry – West Journal of Emergency Medicine (free PDF)

Related Guideline: Evaluation and Management of Children and Adolescents With Acute Mental Health or Behavioral Problems. Part I: Common Clinical Challenges of Patients With Mental Health and/or Behavioral Emergencies – Pediatrics (free)

 


Consensus Statement: Physical Activity and Ageing

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:19h | UTC

Copenhagen Consensus statement 2019: physical activity and ageing – British Journal of Sports Medicine (free)

 


Updates in Management and Timing of Dialysis in Acute Kidney Injury

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:14h | UTC

Updates in Management and Timing of Dialysis in Acute Kidney Injury – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free PDF for a limited period)

Related Research: Early vs. Delayed Dialysis in Acute Kidney Injury (link to abstract and commentary)

 


Cohort Study: Association Between Push-up Exercise Capacity and Future Cardiovascular Events

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:17h | UTC

Association Between Push-up Exercise Capacity and Future Cardiovascular Events Among Active Adult Men – JAMA Network Open (free)

Commentaries: Push-up capacity linked with lower incidence of cardiovascular disease events among men – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (free) AND Struggling to do push-ups? You may be at risk of heart disease – NHS (free) AND How Many Push-Ups Can You Do? It May Be a Good Predictor of Heart Health – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

 


FDA Adds Boxed Warning for Increased Risk of Death with Gout Medicine Febuxostat

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:15h | UTC

FDA adds Boxed Warning for increased risk of death with gout medicine Uloric (febuxostat) – U.S. Food & Drug Administration (free)

Commentaries: FDA Adds Boxed Warning About CV Risks to Gout Drug Febuxostat – TCTMD (free) AND FDA: Gout Drug Raises Death Risk – MedPage Today (free)

Related Research: Cardiovascular Safety of Febuxostat or Allopurinol in Patients with Gout (free study and commentaries)

 


Meta-Analysis: Pharmacological Treatments for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:11h | UTC

Pharmacological treatments for generalised anxiety disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Pharmacotherapy for Generalized Anxiety: An Update – NEJM Journal Watch (free for a limited period)

 


Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Women With Breast Cancer

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:09h | UTC

Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Women With Breast Cancer – Circulation (free)

Related: AHA Scientific Statement on Cardio-Oncology (several guidelines on the subject)

 

Related Commentary on Twitter

 


New WHO Strategy Aims to Halve the Global Impact of Snakebite

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:10h | UTC

Strategy for a globally coordinated response to a priority neglected tropical disease: Snakebite envenoming – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (free)

News Release: New WHO strategy aims to halve the global impact of snakebite – The University of Melbourne (free)

Related: Global Mapping of Vulnerability to Snakebite Envenoming (free study and commentaries) AND Why Are So Many People Still Dying from Snake Bites? (free) AND Snakebite finally makes a WHO list of top global health priorities (free) AND Snakebites Make The List Of ‘Neglected Tropical Diseases’ (free)

 


Review: Role of Breast Arterial Calcification for Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in Women

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:07h | UTC

A Review of the Role of Breast Arterial Calcification for Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in Women – Circulation (free)

Commentary: Breast Calcifications May Hold Important Clues for CV Risk Stratification – TCTMD (free)

 

Related Commentary on Twitter

 


Meta-Analysis: Increasing the Dose Intensity of Chemotherapy in Early Breast Cancer

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:02h | UTC

Increasing the dose intensity of chemotherapy by more frequent administration or sequential scheduling: a patient-level meta-analysis of 37 298 women with early breast cancer in 26 randomised trials – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: Dose intensification of chemotherapy for early breast cancer in the age of de-escalation – The Lancet (free) AND Meta-analysis of Outcomes With Dose-Intense Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Early Breast Cancer – The ASCO Post (free)

 


Study: Diagnostic Accuracy of Clinical Examination for Estimating Cardiac Index in Critically Ill Patients

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:03h | UTC

The diagnostic accuracy of clinical examination for estimating cardiac index in critically ill patients: the Simple Intensive Care Studies-I – Intensive Care Medicine (free)

Note: if the link above is paywalled, try this one

Editorial: Clinical examination: a trigger but not a substitute for hemodynamic evaluation (free)

 

Related Commentary on Twitter

 


Review: Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors-induced Endocrinopathies in Cancer Patients

25 Feb, 2019 | 00:55h | UTC

Spectrum of immune checkpoint inhibitors-induced endocrinopathies in cancer patients: a scoping review of case reports – Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology (free)

Related Guidelines: Management of Immune-Related Adverse Events in Patients Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline (free) AND Managing toxicities associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: consensus recommendations from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Toxicity Management Working Group (free)

 


German Guidelines on the Prevention of Cervical Cancer

25 Feb, 2019 | 01:00h | UTC

Guideline of the DGGG and the DKG (S3 Level, AWMF Register Number 015/027OL, December 2017) – Part 1 with Introduction, Screening and the Pathology of Cervical Dysplasia (free)

Part 2: Triage, Treatment and Follow-up

 


Study: The Effect of Publishing Peer Review Reports on Referee Behavior in Five Scholarly Journals

25 Feb, 2019 | 00:54h | UTC

The effect of publishing peer review reports on referee behavior in five scholarly journals – Nature Communications (free)

Commentary: Rare trial of open peer review allays common concerns – Nature (free)

 


Cricoid Pressure not Helpful During Endotracheal Intubation in Large Trial

25 Feb, 2019 | 00:58h | UTC

Cricoid pressure no help during endotracheal intubation in large trial – PulmCCM (free)

Original Article: Randomized Trial: Cricoid Pressure vs. Sham Procedure in Elective Intubation (link to abstract)

Related Commentary: The Case of the Inferior Superiority – EMNerd (free)

 


Review: Timing of Decompressive Craniectomy for Ischemic Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury

25 Feb, 2019 | 00:52h | UTC

Timing of Decompressive Craniectomy for Ischemic Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Review – Frontiers in Neurology (free)

 


Consensus Statement on Ashy Dermatosis, Erythema Dyschromicum Perstans, Lichen Planus Pigmentosus, Idiopathic Eruptive Macular Pigmentation, and Riehl’s Melanosis

25 Feb, 2019 | 00:59h | UTC

A global consensus statement on ashy dermatosis, erythema dyschromicum perstans, lichen planus pigmentosus, idiopathic eruptive macular pigmentation, and Riehl’s melanosis – International Journal of Dermatology (free)

 


Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

25 Feb, 2019 | 00:49h | UTC

Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of ischemic mitral regurgitation: a review – Journal of Thoracic Disease (free)

 


Meta‐analysis of Peritoneal Lavage in Appendicectomy

25 Feb, 2019 | 00:53h | UTC

Meta‐analysis of peritoneal lavage in appendicectomy – BJS Open (free)

 


Review: Fatigue and its Management in the Workplace

25 Feb, 2019 | 00:51h | UTC

Fatigue and its management in the workplace – Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (free)

 


Randomized Trial: Laparoscopic Distal Gastrectomy vs Open Distal Gastrectomy in Patients With Stage I Gastric Cancer

25 Feb, 2019 | 00:47h | UTC

Effect of Laparoscopic Distal Gastrectomy vs Open Distal Gastrectomy on Long-term Survival Among Patients With Stage I Gastric Cancer: The KLASS-01 Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Oncology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Laparoscopic distal gastrectomy safe alternative to open surgery – MDedge Hematology & Oncology (free)

 


Study: Is Superficial Radiation Therapy An Option for Treating Basal and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Lower Extremities?

25 Feb, 2019 | 00:46h | UTC

Superficial Radiation Therapy: A Viable Nonsurgical Option for Treating Basal and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Lower Extremities – Journal of Drugs in Dermatology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Superficial Radiation Therapy For Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers in the Elderly – MedicalResearch.com (free)

 


Acute Hepatic Porphyrias: Review and Recent Progress

25 Feb, 2019 | 00:48h | UTC

Acute Hepatic Porphyrias: Review and Recent Progress – Hepatology Communications (free)

 


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