Daily Archives: August 20, 2019
AHA Scientific Advisory: Omega-3 Fatty Acids for the Management of Hypertriglyceridemia
20 Aug, 2019 | 08:57h | UTCNews Release: Prescription omega-3 fatty acid medications effectively lower high triglycerides – American Heart Association (free)
Related: Omega-3 Supplements Do Not Reduce the Risk of Cancer or Cardiovascular Disease (randomized trial and systematic reviews on the subject)
Tue August 20 – 10 Stories of The Day!
20 Aug, 2019 | 08:59h | UTC
News Release: Prescription omega-3 fatty acid medications effectively lower high triglycerides – American Heart Association (free)
Related: Omega-3 Supplements Do Not Reduce the Risk of Cancer or Cardiovascular Disease (randomized trial and systematic reviews on the subject)
Related: The Norwegian guidelines for the prehospital management of adult trauma patients with potential spinal injury (free) AND Cervical spine collar clearance in the obtunded adult blunt trauma patient: A systematic review and practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (free) AND Prehospital Cervical Spinal Immobilization After Trauma – Neurosurgery (free) AND Pre-Hospital Care Management of a Potential Spinal Cord Injured Patient: A Systematic Review of the Literature and Evidence-Based Guidelines – Journal of Neurotrauma (free) AND Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for Spine Immobilization in the Austere Environment (free)
Related Reviews: Diagnosis of sepsis‐induced disseminated intravascular coagulation and coagulopathy – Acute Medicine & Surgery (free) AND Sepsis-associated disseminated intravascular coagulation and its differential diagnoses – Journal of Intensive Care (free) AND Advance in the Management of Sepsis-Induced Coagulopathy and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation – Journal of Clinical Medicine (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
4 – Clinical Outcomes After Intensifying Antihypertensive Medication Regimens Among Older Adults at Hospital Discharge – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentary: Intensifying Antihypertensives at Discharge Tied to Adverse Events – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
Related Study: Overtreatment of Blood Pressure Common at Hospital Discharge (free)
Related Study: The Benefits of Clopidogrel-aspirin Combination after Minor Stroke/TIA occurs Predominantly Within the First 21 Days (free)
Related Guideline: Dual Antiplatelet Therapy for Acute High-Risk TIA and Minor Ischemic Stroke – The BMJ (free)
6 – News Release: CDC, states investigating severe pulmonary disease among people who use e-cigarettes – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (free)
Commentaries: More than 120 cases of lung disease in 15 states could be linked to vaping – CNN (free) AND CDC probes lung illnesses linked to e-cigarette use – Reuters (free) AND What’s Behind A Cluster Of Vaping-Related Hospitalizations? – NPR (free) AND CDC Investigating Cases of Severe Lung Disease Tied to Vaping – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
Related Research: Cohort Study: Flu Vaccine in Pregnancy Safe for Children and Mothers (free)
Related ACOG Guideline: Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy (free)
“maternal influenza vaccination is not associated with harmful effects on birth outcomes. The beneficial effects reported from previous studies on preterm birth, low birth weight, and fetal death could not be confirmed.”
Commentaries: The Dynamics of Frailty Among Older Adults – JAMA Network Open (free) AND Frailty is a medical condition, not an inevitable result of aging – Monash University (free)
Related: Best practice guidelines for the management of frailty: a British Geriatrics Society, Age UK and Royal College of General Practitioners report – Age and Ageing (free) AND A Review of Frailty Syndrome and Its Physical, Cognitive and Emotional Domains in the Elderly – Geriatrics (free) AND Frailty: Identifying elderly patients at high risk of poor outcomes – Canadian Family Physician (free)
9 – Early discharge hospital at home – NEJM Catalyst (free)
Related: Interventions to Promote Early Discharge and Avoid Inappropriate Hospital (Re)Admission: A Systematic Review – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (free) AND Early discharge hospital at home – Cochrane Library (free) AND Early discharge ‘hospital-at-home’ gives similar outcomes to in-patient care – NIHR Signal (free)
10 – Difficult airway management algorithms: a directed review – Anaesthesia (free)
Related Guidelines: Difficult intubation and extubation in adult anaesthesia – Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine (free) AND Difficult Airway Society 2015 guidelines for management of unanticipated difficult intubation in adults – British Journal of Anaesthesia (free) AND Practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Management of the Difficult Airway – Anesthesiology (free) AND The difficult airway with recommendations for management – Part 1 – Difficult tracheal intubation encountered in an unconscious/induced patient – Canadian Journal of Anesthesia (free) AND The difficult airway with recommendations for management – Part 2 – The anticipated difficult airway – Canadian Journal of Anesthesia (free) AND Guidelines for the management of tracheal intubation in critically ill adults – British Journal of Anaesthesia (free) AND S1 guidelines on airway management – German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (free)
New Guidelines on the Spinal Stabilization of Adult Trauma Patients
20 Aug, 2019 | 08:55h | UTCRelated: The Norwegian guidelines for the prehospital management of adult trauma patients with potential spinal injury (free) AND Cervical spine collar clearance in the obtunded adult blunt trauma patient: A systematic review and practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (free) AND Prehospital Cervical Spinal Immobilization After Trauma – Neurosurgery (free) AND Pre-Hospital Care Management of a Potential Spinal Cord Injured Patient: A Systematic Review of the Literature and Evidence-Based Guidelines – Journal of Neurotrauma (free) AND Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for Spine Immobilization in the Austere Environment (free)
Cohort Study: Intensifying Antihypertensive Medication Regimens Among Older Adults at Hospital Discharge Linked to Worse Outcomes
20 Aug, 2019 | 08:35h | UTCClinical Outcomes After Intensifying Antihypertensive Medication Regimens Among Older Adults at Hospital Discharge – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentary: Intensifying Antihypertensives at Discharge Tied to Adverse Events – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
Related Study: Overtreatment of Blood Pressure Common at Hospital Discharge (free)
Guideline: Diagnosis and Management of Sepsis‐induced Coagulopathy and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
20 Aug, 2019 | 08:53h | UTCRelated Reviews: Diagnosis of sepsis‐induced disseminated intravascular coagulation and coagulopathy – Acute Medicine & Surgery (free) AND Sepsis-associated disseminated intravascular coagulation and its differential diagnoses – Journal of Intensive Care (free) AND Advance in the Management of Sepsis-Induced Coagulopathy and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation – Journal of Clinical Medicine (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
CDC Investigating Severe Pulmonary Disease Cases Among People Who Use E-Cigarettes
20 Aug, 2019 | 08:27h | UTCNews Release: CDC, states investigating severe pulmonary disease among people who use e-cigarettes – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (free)
Commentaries: More than 120 cases of lung disease in 15 states could be linked to vaping – CNN (free) AND CDC probes lung illnesses linked to e-cigarette use – Reuters (free) AND What’s Behind A Cluster Of Vaping-Related Hospitalizations? – NPR (free) AND CDC Investigating Cases of Severe Lung Disease Tied to Vaping – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
Study: Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Should be Used for 21 Days After Minor Ischemic Stroke or High-risk Transient Ischemic Attack
20 Aug, 2019 | 08:32h | UTCRelated Study: The Benefits of Clopidogrel-aspirin Combination after Minor Stroke/TIA occurs Predominantly Within the First 21 Days (free)
Related Guideline: Dual Antiplatelet Therapy for Acute High-Risk TIA and Minor Ischemic Stroke – The BMJ (free)
Meta-Analysis: Maternal Influenza Vaccination is Not Associated with Harmful Effects on Birth Outcomes
20 Aug, 2019 | 08:24h | UTCRelated Research: Cohort Study: Flu Vaccine in Pregnancy Safe for Children and Mothers (free)
Related ACOG Guideline: Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy (free)
“maternal influenza vaccination is not associated with harmful effects on birth outcomes. The beneficial effects reported from previous studies on preterm birth, low birth weight, and fetal death could not be confirmed.”
Meta-Analysis: Global Incidence of Frailty and Prefrailty Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults
20 Aug, 2019 | 08:20h | UTCCommentaries: The Dynamics of Frailty Among Older Adults – JAMA Network Open (free) AND Frailty is a medical condition, not an inevitable result of aging – Monash University (free)
Related: Best practice guidelines for the management of frailty: a British Geriatrics Society, Age UK and Royal College of General Practitioners report – Age and Ageing (free) AND A Review of Frailty Syndrome and Its Physical, Cognitive and Emotional Domains in the Elderly – Geriatrics (free) AND Frailty: Identifying elderly patients at high risk of poor outcomes – Canadian Family Physician (free)
Perspective: Early Discharge Hospital at Home
20 Aug, 2019 | 08:14h | UTCEarly discharge hospital at home – NEJM Catalyst (free)
Related: Interventions to Promote Early Discharge and Avoid Inappropriate Hospital (Re)Admission: A Systematic Review – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (free) AND Early discharge hospital at home – Cochrane Library (free) AND Early discharge ‘hospital-at-home’ gives similar outcomes to in-patient care – NIHR Signal (free)
Review: Difficult Airway Management Algorithms
20 Aug, 2019 | 08:10h | UTCDifficult airway management algorithms: a directed review – Anaesthesia (free)
Related Guidelines: Difficult intubation and extubation in adult anaesthesia – Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine (free) AND Difficult Airway Society 2015 guidelines for management of unanticipated difficult intubation in adults – British Journal of Anaesthesia (free) AND Practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Management of the Difficult Airway – Anesthesiology (free) AND The difficult airway with recommendations for management – Part 1 – Difficult tracheal intubation encountered in an unconscious/induced patient – Canadian Journal of Anesthesia (free) AND The difficult airway with recommendations for management – Part 2 – The anticipated difficult airway – Canadian Journal of Anesthesia (free) AND Guidelines for the management of tracheal intubation in critically ill adults – British Journal of Anaesthesia (free) AND S1 guidelines on airway management – German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (free)