Daily Archives: July 1, 2019

Mon July 1 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 Jul, 2019 | 00:01h | UTC

 

1 – Pediatric Post–Cardiac Arrest Care: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association – Circulation (free PDF)

Top Ten Things to Know: Pediatric Post–Cardiac Arrest Care (free)

Podcast: Care Considerations for the Pediatric Post-Cardiac Arrest Patient (free)

 

2 – 2019 European guideline on the management of lymphogranuloma venereum – Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (free)

 

3 – Syphilis – The BMJ (free)

Related: WHO Guidelines for the Treatment of Treponema pallidum (Syphilis) – World Health Organization (free)

 

4 – Duration of dual antiplatelet therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stent: systematic review and network meta-analysis – The BMJ (free)

Related Randomized Trials: Shorter Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy May be an Option for Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (free studies and commentaries)

 

5 – Causes of severe pneumonia requiring hospital admission in children without HIV infection from Africa and Asia: the PERCH multi-country case-control study – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: What the PERCH study means for future pneumonia strategies – The Lancet (free) AND Study: Viruses cause most global pediatric pneumonia – CIDRAP (free)

 

6 – A Practical Approach to Low-Dose Aspirin for Primary Prevention – JAMA (free for a limited period)

 

7 – IDSA/AAN/ACR Draft Lyme Disease Guidelines – Infectious Diseases Society of America (free PDF)

Commentary: New Draft Lyme Disease Guidelines Issued – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

 

8 – Estimation of Kidney Function in Oncology: Implications for Anticancer Drug Selection and Dosing – Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (free)

“In one retrospective study, approximately one half of kidney function–impaired patients with solid tumors who were receiving a drug that necessitated dose adjustments for kidney function received almost 50% of their prescriptions at standard doses”.

 

9 – The Use of Activated Charcoal to Treat Intoxications – Deutsches Arzteblatt International (free)

 

10 – Effects of the DASH Diet and Sodium Intake on Bloating: Results From the DASH–Sodium Trial – The American Journal of Gastroenterology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Higher salt intake can cause gastrointestinal bloating – Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (free)

 

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