Daily Archives: January 13, 2020

Mon January 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!

13 Jan, 2020 | 00:01h | UTC

 

1 – ACC/AHA/ASE/HRS/ISACHD/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/SOPE 2020 Appropriate Use Criteria for Multimodality Imaging During the Follow-Up Care of Patients With Congenital Heart Disease – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (free)

Commentaries: Appropriate Use Criteria for Imaging of Congenital Heart Disease Patients: Key Points – American College of Cardiology (free) AND New AUC for Cardiac Imaging Follow-up in Congenital Heart Disease – TCTMD (free)

 

2 – Association of Deceased Donor Acute Kidney Injury With Recipient Graft Survival – JAMA Network Open (free)

Commentaries: Less-than-perfect kidneys can be successfully used for transplants, study shows – Johns Hopkins Medicine (free) AND Less than perfect kidneys safe for transplant, study shows – UPI (free) AND Greater Use of Deceased Donor AKI Kidneys Urged – Renal & Urology News (free)

 

3 – Adverse events in adults with latent tuberculosis infection receiving daily rifampicin or isoniazid: post-hoc safety analysis of two randomised controlled trials – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free registration required)

Commentaries: What is the best regimen to treat latent tuberculosis infection? – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free) AND Four Months of Rifampicin May Be Best Option for Latent TB – Medscape / Reuters (free registration required)

 

4 – Homepage: Palliative Care – Medicine (free articles)

– Palliative care: introduction

– Pain control in palliative care

– Interventional management of pain in cancer and palliative care

– Nausea and vomiting in palliative care

– Constipation and malignant bowel obstruction in palliative care

– Breathlessness in advanced disease

– Psychiatric conditions in palliative medicine

– Emergencies in palliative care

– Palliative care in non-malignant disease

– Management of less common symptoms in palliative care

– Complications of systemic anti-cancer treatment

– Care in the last hours and days of life

– Advance care-planning and clinical decision-making

– Ethical principles in end-of-life care

 

5 – Homepage: Uncommon Severe Infections in the Intensive Care Unit – Clinical Microbiology and Infection (free articles)

– Improving care for the ICU patient with suspected infection: a multidisciplinary perspective

– Necrotizing skin and soft-tissue infections in the intensive care unit

– Management of infected pancreatic necrosis in the intensive care unit: a narrative review

– Mediastinitis in the intensive care unit patient: a narrative review

– When not to start antibiotics: avoiding antibiotic overuse in the intensive care unit

 

6 – Uterine Balloon Tamponade for the Treatment of Postpartum Hemorrhage: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Technique is almost 86 percent effective in preventing maternal death from hemorrhaging – Massachusetts General Hospital (free) AND Uterine Balloon Tamponade for Postpartum Bleeding Seems Safe – Physician’s Briefing (free)

 

7 – Different strategies for pharmacological thromboprophylaxis for lower-limb immobilisation after injury: systematic review and economic evaluation – Health Technology Assessment (free)

Source: EvidenceAlerts

 

8 – How I set up positive end-expiratory pressure: evidence- and physiology-based! – Critical Care (free)

 

9 – Mechanical ventilation in patients with acute ischaemic stroke: from pathophysiology to clinical practice – Critical Care (free)

 

10 – Tea consumption and the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality: The China-PAR project – European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Tea drinkers live longer – European Society of Cardiology (free) AND Habitual Green Tea Drinkers May Live Longer – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND Expert reaction to study looking at tea drinking, and health and longevity – Science Media Centre (free)

 

---