Daily Archives: February 24, 2020

Mon February 24 – 10 Stories of The Day!

24 Feb, 2020 | 00:37h | UTC

 

1 – The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Guidelines for the Definitive Surgical Management of Thyroid Disease in Adults – Annals of Surgery (free)

Commentary: New evidence-based clinical guidelines for surgical treatment of thyroid disease – News Medical (free)

 

2 – Preventing Surgical Site Infections: Looking Beyond the Current Guidelines – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Related Guidelines: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2017 – JAMA Surgery (free) AND Global guidelines on the prevention of surgical site infection – World Health Organization (free) AND Surgical site infections: prevention and treatment – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free) AND APSIC guidelines for the prevention of surgical site infections – Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control (free) AND Intraoperative surgical site infection control and prevention: a position paper and future addendum to WSES intra-abdominal infections guidelines – World Journal of Emergency Surgery (free)

 

3 – Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survivorship: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association – Circulation (free PDF)

 

4 – Opinion: Past Time to Tell the Public: “It Will Probably Go Pandemic, and We Should All Prepare Now” – Virology Down Under (free)

Related commentaries: Covid-19 now a pandemic, say global experts – RTHK (free) AND Covid-19 is now a pandemic, says Leuven specialist – The Brussels Times (free) AND “We are at a turning point”: The coronavirus outbreak is looking more like a pandemic – Vox (free) AND Understanding pandemics: What they mean, don’t mean, and what comes next with the coronavirus – STAT (free)

Note: As with every article on this website, this is not necessarily an endorsement.

 

5 – Comparison of Cardiovascular Events Among Users of Different Classes of Antihypertension Medications: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis – JAMA Network Open (free)

 

6 – Impact of screening on cervical cancer incidence: A population‐based case–control study in the United States – International Journal of Cancer (free)

Commentaries: Screen for Cervical Cancer Every 3 Years: More Is a ‘Waste’ – Medscape (free registration required)

Related Guideline: USPSTF Statement: Screening for Cervical Cancer (free resources)

 

7 – No raw data, no science: another possible source of the reproducibility crisis – Molecular Brain (free)

Commentary: How a ‘no raw data, no science’ outlook can resolve the reproducibility crisis in science – by Fujita Health University (free)

Related: Can We Science Our Way out of the Reproducibility Crisis? – Absolutely Maybe Blog (free) AND Study: Evaluating the Replicability of Social Science Experiments (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Five ways to fix statistics – Nature (free) AND Make replication studies ‘a normal and essential part of science,’ Dutch science academy says – Science (free) AND Reproducibility of clinical research in critical care: a scoping review (free) AND Reproducibility Trial Publishes Two Conclusions for One Paper (free)

 

8 – Community-acquired pneumonia in critically ill very old patients: a growing problem – European Respiratory Review (free)

Editorial: Natural enemy or friend? Pneumonia in the very elderly critically ill patient (free)

 

9 – The burden of unintentional drowning: global, regional and national estimates of mortality from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study – Injury Prevention (free)

Related Guidelines: Prevention of Drowning – American Academy of Pediatrics (free) AND Preventing drowning: an implementation guide – World Health Organization (free PDF) AND Global report on drowning: preventing a leading killer – World Health Organization (free PDF) Report: Open Water Drowning and Risks for Children (free) AND Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment and Prevention of Drowning: 2019 Update – Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (free)

 

10 – Is COVID-19 Going Pandemic? / Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives / 24 February 2020 Edition

24 February 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)

 

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