Fri May 24 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – The top 100 manuscripts in emergency cardiac surgery. Potential role in cardiothoracic training. A bibliometric analysis – Annals of Medicine and Surgery (free)

2 – Management of antiplatelet therapy for non elective invasive procedures of bleeding complications: proposals from the French working group on perioperative haemostasis (GIHP), in collaboration with the French Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (SFAR) – Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine (free)

3 – May Measurement Month 2018: a pragmatic global screening campaign to raise awareness of blood pressure by the International Society of Hypertension – European Heart Journal (free)

Commentary: Only a third of people have hypertension under control – OnMedica (free)

4 – Eosinophil-guided corticosteroid therapy in patients admitted to hospital with COPD exacerbation (CORTICO-COP): a multicentre, randomised, controlled, open-label, non-inferiority trial – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: 2 Minute Medicine Rewind May 20, 2019 (4^th Summary)

See also: Video Summary – Medwire News (free audio)

5 – The escalating global burden of serious health-related suffering: projections to 2060 by world regions, age groups, and health conditions – The Lancet Global Health (free)

Invited Commentary: Global palliative care: from need to action – The Lancet Global Health (free)

“Immediate global action to integrate palliative care into health systems is an ethical and economic imperative.”

6 – Strategies to relieve dyspnoea in patients with advanced chronic respiratory diseases. A narrative review – Pulmonology (free)

7 – Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR): Free upgrade to your WBC – PulmCrit (free)

8 – Defining High Bleeding Risk in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Consensus Document From the Academic Research Consortium for High Bleeding Risk – Circulation (free PDF)

9 – Recommendations for the Management of the Incidental Renal Mass in Adults: Endorsement and Adaptation of the 2017 ACR Incidental Findings Committee White Paper by the Canadian Association of Radiologists Incidental Findings Working Group – Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal (free)

10 – Breast cancer risk in transgender people receiving hormone treatment: nationwide cohort study in the Netherlands – The BMJ (free)

Commentaries: Breast cancer risk in transgender people: the value of gaining new insights from other sources – The BMJ Opinion (free) AND Risk of Breast Cancer Among Transgender People – The ASCO Post (free) AND Transgender women have increased risk of breast cancer compared to cisgender men – Cancer Research UK (free)