Daily Archives: February 15, 2022
ACR Guidance for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Associated With SARS–CoV-2 and Hyperinflammation in Pediatric COVID-19.
15 Feb, 2022 | 10:17h | UTCCommentary and summary: ACR Updates Clinical Guidance for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Associated With COVID – RheumNow
Why don’t most people with COVID need to test for another 30 days, even if they’re re-exposed?
15 Feb, 2022 | 10:14h | UTC
Essay: Tuberculosis in times of COVID-19.
15 Feb, 2022 | 10:16h | UTCTuberculosis in times of COVID-19 – Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
Related:
Covid-19’s Devastating Effect on Tuberculosis Care — A Path to Recovery.
Global tuberculosis progress reversed by COVID-19 pandemic.
How COVID is derailing the fight against HIV, TB and malaria.
How COVID hurt the fight against other dangerous diseases
World TB Day | Report: COVID-19 Eliminates Twelve Years of Progress Against Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis and Covid-19: Fighting a deadly syndemic
Omicron-targeted vaccines do no better than original jabs in early tests in animals.
15 Feb, 2022 | 10:09h | UTCOmicron-targeted vaccines do no better than original jabs in early tests – Nature
Retrospective Cohort: Association of SARS-CoV-2 infection with serious maternal morbidity and mortality from obstetric complications.
15 Feb, 2022 | 10:11h | UTCNews Release: NIH-funded study suggests COVID-19 increases risk of pregnancy complications – NIH News Releases
Commentary on Twitter
In this study, among pregnant and postpartum individuals, #SARSCoV2 infection was associated with increased risk of a composite outcome of maternal mortality or serious morbidity from obstetric complications. https://t.co/51wcT8GhJq
— JAMA (@JAMA_current) February 7, 2022
Scientists deliberately gave people COVID — here’s what they learnt.
15 Feb, 2022 | 10:06h | UTCScientists deliberately gave people COVID — here’s what they learnt – Nature
Original Study: [Preprint] Results from the first Covid-19 human challenge study (deliberately infecting individuals in a controlled environment).
Related:
World’s first coronavirus “Human Challenge” study receives ethics approval in the UK (several texts on the subject)
Meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials: vaccines to prevent COVID-19.
15 Feb, 2022 | 10:04h | UTC
Systematic Review: Efficacy of antiviral therapies for COVID-19.
15 Feb, 2022 | 10:02h | UTC
Study identifies risk factors for severe CoviD-19 in children.
15 Feb, 2022 | 10:01h | UTCRisk Factors for Severe COVID-19 in Children – Pediatrics
APASL clinical practice guidance: the diagnosis and management of patients with primary biliary cholangitis.
15 Feb, 2022 | 09:56h | UTCRelated:
A consensus integrated care pathway for patients with primary biliary cholangitis.
Biliary Endoscopy in the Management of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis and its Complications
Covid-19: Fourth vaccine doses—who needs them and why?
15 Feb, 2022 | 09:59h | UTCCovid-19: Fourth vaccine doses—who needs them and why? – The BMJ
Rickets guidance: part I—diagnostic workup.
15 Feb, 2022 | 09:51h | UTCRickets guidance: part I—diagnostic workup – Pediatric Nephrology
EAACI Position Paper: Hypersensitivity reactions to chemotherapy.
15 Feb, 2022 | 09:54h | UTCHypersensitivity reactions to chemotherapy: an EAACI Position Paper – Allergy
M-A: In patients undergoing colorectal surgery with pelvic dissection, removing urinary catheters on postoperative days 3–4 may provide a balance, minimizing the risk of urine retention (increased when taken too soon) and urinary tract infections (increased when taken too late).
15 Feb, 2022 | 09:45h | UTC
RCT: A supraclavicular ultrasound-guided right subclavian venous catheterization approach was non-inferior in terms of safety compared to an ultrasound-guided infraclavicular approach.
15 Feb, 2022 | 09:46h | UTCSupraclavicular versus infraclavicular approach for ultrasound-guided right subclavian venous catheterisation: a randomised controlled non-inferiority trial – Anaesthesia (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Systematic Review: Electrocardiographic features of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
15 Feb, 2022 | 09:47h | UTC
M-A: Timing of carotid intervention in symptomatic carotid artery stenosis.
15 Feb, 2022 | 08:51h | UTC
A practical guide to the evaluation of small bowel bleeding.
15 Feb, 2022 | 09:49h | UTCA Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Small Bowel Bleeding – Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial: An electronic decision support system for deprescribing in hospitalized older adults was safe and led to improvements in deprescribing but did not reduce adverse drug events.
15 Feb, 2022 | 09:43h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
Randomized control trial found that @MedSaferTool increases #deprescribing by 22% at hospital discharge but little impact on short term adverse drug events. https://t.co/XqiSwFSPEz @DrEmilyMcD @DrToddLee @DeprescribeUS
— JAMA Internal Medicine (@JAMAInternalMed) January 18, 2022
Review: Classic and exertional heatstroke.
15 Feb, 2022 | 08:43h | UTCClassic and exertional heatstroke – Nature Reviews Disease Primers (if the link is paywalled, try this one)
Commentary on Twitter
Cooling of patients with #heatstroke includes evaporative strategies and conductive methods that aim to establishing the largest possible temperature gradient between the body core and the skin https://t.co/i53jyJBTl5 pic.twitter.com/tofUjiDJYG
— Nature Reviews Disease Primers (@DiseasePrimers) February 8, 2022
Systematic Review: Arthroplasties for hip fracture in adults.
15 Feb, 2022 | 08:41h | UTCArthroplasties for hip fracture in adults – Cochrane Library
Summary: Hip replacement surgery in adults – Cochrane Library
Author Interview: Interview with authors of Hip Fracture reviews – Cochrane Library
A large cohort of patients with nephrotic syndrome showed the risk of arterial thromboembolism (HR = 3.11), venous thromboembolism (HR = 7.11), and bleeding (HR = 4.02) was greatly increased after adjusting for confounders.
15 Feb, 2022 | 08:47h | UTCRisk of arterial thromboembolism, venous thromboembolism, and bleeding in patients with nephrotic syndrome: A population-based cohort study – American Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Data Review: How many people die from air pollution?
15 Feb, 2022 | 08:37h | UTCData Review: How many people die from air pollution? – Our World in Data
Related:
New WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines aim to save millions of lives from air pollution.
1.8 million excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019, modelling study suggests.
Air Pollution Associated with New Causes of Hospital Admissions
Ambient Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality in 652 Cities
Air Pollution and Estimated Life Expectancy Loss
A clinician’s guide to Artificial Intelligence (AI): why and how primary care should lead the health care AI revolution.
15 Feb, 2022 | 08:38h | UTCRelated:
Primer for artificial intelligence in primary care.
A Clinician’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence: How to Critically Appraise Machine Learning Studies
Review | AI and the cardiologist: when mind, heart and machine unite.
Review: Artificial intelligence in health and medicine.
Opinion | AI-facilitated health care requires education of clinicians
Welcoming new guidelines for AI clinical research
Why randomized controlled trials matter and the procedures that strengthen them.
15 Feb, 2022 | 08:39h | UTCWhy randomized controlled trials matter and the procedures that strengthen them – Our World in Data