Thu, May 11 – 10 Medical Stories of The Day!

1 – Practice guideline summary: Reducing brain injury following cardiopulmonary resuscitation (link to abstract – free PDF available)

Sources: Guideline: Offer Cooling After Cardiac Arrest – MedPage Today (free) AND Body Cooling Recommended for Some Comatose Patients After Cardiac Arrest – Physician’s First Watch (free)

2 – Ten Principles of Good Prescribing – by J K Aronson, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) (free)

3 – Estimating the future burden of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in India, the Philippines, Russia, and South Africa: a mathematical modelling study – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Drug Resistant TB Is Predicted To Steadily Spread In 4 Countries – NPR Goats and Soda (free) AND The Deadliest Form Of Tuberculosis Is Snowballing In Countries That Are Already Hard Hit – Huffington Post (free) AND Researchers Predict Increase in Drug-resistant TB – VOA News (free) AND Drug-resistant tuberculosis strains gain foothold – Science (free)

See also our coverage of #WorldTBDay in our March 24^th issue

4 – Survival of HIV-positive patients starting antiretroviral therapy between 1996 and 2013: a collaborative analysis of cohort studies – The Lancet HIV (free)

Invited commentary: Improved life expectancy of people living with HIV: who is left behind? (free)

Source: Treatment now gives some HIV patients a normal life expectancy, study finds – STAT News (free)

5 – Risk of acute myocardial infarction with NSAIDs in real world use: bayesian meta-analysis of individual patient data – The BMJ (free)

Commentaries: Meta-Analysis: Just a Week of NSAID Use Tied to Increased Heart Attack Risk – Journal Watch (free) AND Common painkillers linked to increased risk of heart attack, study says – CNN (free) All NSAIDs Linked to Increased MI Risk – Medscape (free registration required)

Another study suggesting NSAIDs may be associated with increased cardiovascular risk.

6 – Meta-Analysis of Drug-Eluting Stents Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Unprotected Left Main Coronary Narrowing – Journal of The American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text) (source: EvidenceAlerts)

Related recent meta-analysis: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Using Drug-Eluting Stents Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials – Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions (free) AND Percutaneous intervention versus coronary artery bypass graft surgery in left main coronary artery stenosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis – BMC Medicine (free)

PCI with drug-eluding stents seems to be a safe alternative to CABG in Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis, but it is associated with higher rates of repeat revascularization.

7 – How To Do A Really Good Job Washing Your Hands – NPR Health News (free)

See also World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “Clean Hands” campaigns in our May 5^th issue, see #2.

8 – Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: AUA/ASTRO/SUO Guideline (free)

Source: Urologic Groups Offer New Prostate Cancer Management Guideline – Physician’s First Watch (free)

9 – Antibiotic Prescribing for Nonbacterial Acute Upper Respiratory Infections in Elderly Persons – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Source: Half of all seniors who went to doctor for common cold prescribed unnecessary antibiotics – Science Magazine (free)

10 – Review: Current Trends in the Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease – Gut and Liver (free PDF)