Daily Archives: April 6, 2021
ACP Guidance: Appropriate Use of Short-Course Antibiotics in Common Infections
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:12h | UTCSummary for Patients: Appropriate Use of Short-Course Antibiotics in Common Infections: Best Practice Advice From the American College of Physicians
Leadership Essentials for CHEST Medicine Professionals: Models, Attributes, and Styles
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:10h | UTCLeadership Essentials for CHEST Medicine Professionals: Models, Attributes, and Styles – CHEST
Commentary and Summary: Leadership 101 – Commitments, Character, Competencies – Journal Feed
CDC Report: Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Associated with a Local Bar Opening Event
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:29h | UTCCommentaries: Illinois bar opening event linked to 46 Covid-19 cases, a school closure and hospitalization, CDC report says – CNN AND Bar opening linked to 29 COVID-19 diagnoses among staff and patrons, 17 more across the community affecting school, nursing home – Science Speaks: Global ID News AND 46 COVID-19 cases linked to one indoor bar event in rural Illinois: CDC – The Hill
Related: Why indoor spaces are still prime COVID hotspots – Nature
Diagnostic Test Interpretation: Evaluation of Hypokalemia
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:07h | UTCEvaluation of Hypokalemia – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Chronic Coronary Syndromes in Women: Challenges in Diagnosis and Management
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:08h | UTC
RCT: Effect of intravitreous anti–vascular endothelial growth factor vs. sham treatment for prevention of vision-threatening complications of diabetic retinopathy
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:02h | UTCCommentaries: Preventive treatment reduces diabetic retinopathy complications – NIH News Releases AND Prevention of Severe Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy Progression With More at Stake Than Visual Acuity – JAMA Ophthalmology AND Practicality of Prophylactic Aflibercept to Reduce Diabetic Retinopathy Progression – JAMA Ophthalmology
Author interview: Randomized Trial of Anti-VEGF to Prevent Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy (PDR) and Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) – JAMA
Commentary on Twitter
In this study, aflibercept injections reduced the development of vision-threating complications; however, through 2 years, preventive treatment did not confer visual acuity benefit compared with observation plus aflibercept if complications developed https://t.co/q4ABSKOMVj
— JAMAOphthalmology (@JAMAOphth) March 30, 2021
Podcast: Evaluation and Management of Acute Diarrhea
6 Apr, 2021 | 00:59h | UTC#266 Diarrhea Disemboweled Part 1: Acute Diarrhea with Dr. Iris Wang – The Curbsiders
Guide to Enhanced Recovery for Cancer Patients Undergoing Surgery
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:01h | UTCGuide to Enhanced Recovery for Cancer Patients Undergoing Surgery – Annals of Surgical Oncology
See also: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Guidelines
Consensus Statement: Perioperative management of patients with pulmonary hypertension undergoing non-cardiothoracic, non-obstetric surgery
6 Apr, 2021 | 00:54h | UTC
How your doctor describes your medical condition can encourage you to say ‘yes’ to surgery when there are other options
6 Apr, 2021 | 00:56h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
?Just out in @JOSPT
Labels for rotator cuff disease influence management preferences
People told they had a rotator cuff tear had higher perceived need for shoulder surgery than those told they have bursitis
Thread below ?@msk_health @MaryOKeeffe007https://t.co/sLkvYJ77at
— Joshua Zadro (@zadro_josh) April 1, 2021
M-A: Colchicine administration for percutaneous coronary intervention
6 Apr, 2021 | 00:58h | UTCColchicine administration for percutaneous coronary intervention: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials – The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Related: Efficacy and safety of low-dose colchicine in patients with coronary disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials – European Heart Journal (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Long Covid Implications for the workplace
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:15h | UTCLong Covid Implications for the workplace – Occupational Medicine
Probable airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a poorly ventilated restaurant
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:27h | UTCRelated: Why indoor spaces are still prime COVID hotspots – Nature
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
?AIRBORNE RESTAURANT TRANSMISSION—3 families—“No close contact or fomite contact identified, aside from back-to-back sitting—Airflow dynamics indicates the infection distribution is consistent with a spread of **long-range transmission of exhaled virus-laden aerosols**”. ? pic.twitter.com/kapgqumWnV
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 5, 2021
Epidemiologic Evidence for Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during Church Singing
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:26h | UTCRelated: Why indoor spaces are still prime COVID hotspots – Nature
Commentary on Twitter
Pretty interesting report of #Covid19 transmission during church services in Australia. Infected choir member appears to have transmitted to up to 12 church goers, some seated more than 15 meters from the choir loft. No masks. Yes, likely airborne. https://t.co/w5CKMsaKp9 pic.twitter.com/Wmi6jxOPox
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) April 5, 2021
Reactogenicity Following Receipt of mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccines
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:21h | UTCReactogenicity Following Receipt of mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccines – JAMA
Commentaries on Twitter
This @JAMA_current paper summarizes adverse reactions to mRNA #COVID19 vaccines through @CDCgov v-safe surveillance system, which collects near–real-time data via smartphone text message prompts and web-based health surveys. https://t.co/Xbdg0lxYfK pic.twitter.com/E4q13aJfkZ
— Muin J. Khoury (@MuinJKhoury) April 5, 2021
.@CDCgov's v-safe program collects near–realtime data from US #COVID19 vaccine recipients. V-safe participants self-enroll and receive smartphone text messages to initiate web-based health health surveys from the day of vaccination (day 0) through 12 mo https://t.co/utJNibTTd9
— JAMA (@JAMA_current) April 5, 2021
Covid-19 Has Created Thousands Of Newly Single Parents And Orphans
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:24h | UTCBREAKING: Covid-19 Has Created Thousands Of Newly Single Parents And Orphans – Brief19
Original study: Estimates and Projections of COVID-19 and Parental Death in the US – JAMA Pediatrics
Commentary on Twitter
New study finds that in the United States alone, "37,300 children aged 0 to 17 years [have] lost at least 1 parent due to #COVID19" as of February 2021. The authors suggest that accounting for excess mortality may shift this tally up to as many as 43,000: https://t.co/v5fACWMwtP
— Dr. Maimuna Majumder (@maiamajumder) April 5, 2021
A framework for microbiome science in public health
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:19h | UTCA framework for microbiome science in public health – Nature Medicine
Cohort study: Association between pre-existing respiratory disease and its treatment, and severe COVID-19
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:17h | UTC
U.S. Saw Over 520,000 Excess Deaths in 2020, Most from COVID-19
6 Apr, 2021 | 01:18h | UTCU.S. Saw Over 520,000 Excess Deaths in 2020, Most from COVID-19 – NEJM Journal Watch
Original study: Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes in the US, March 1, 2020, to January 2, 2021 – JAMA
Editorial: Learning From Excess Pandemic Deaths – JAMA