Mon August 5 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Preterm labour and birth – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

Related Guideline: Practice Bulletin: Management of Preterm Labor – Obstetrics & Gynecology (free)

Related Review: Preterm Labor: One Syndrome, Many Causes – Science (free)

2 – Oral antihypertensive regimens (nifedipine retard, labetalol, and methyldopa) for management of severe hypertension in pregnancy: an open-label, randomised controlled trial – The Lancet (free)

Commentary: Oral regimen management of acute hypertension in pregnancy – The Lancet (free)

3 – Ursodeoxycholic acid versus placebo in women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (PITCHES): a randomised controlled trial – The Lancet (free)

Commentary: Ursodeoxycholic acid for intrahepatic cholestasis in pregnancy – The Lancet (free)

4 – An artificial intelligence-enabled ECG algorithm for the identification of patients with atrial fibrillation during sinus rhythm: a retrospective analysis of outcome prediction – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Deep learning AI may identify atrial fibrillation from a normal rhythm ECG – The Lancet (free) AND AI may help detect atrial fibrillation from a normal rhythm ECG – OnMedica (free) AND Expert reaction to a study looking at an AI algorithm to identify atrial fibrillation – Science Media Centre (free) AND AI-Trained EKG Can Detect New or Impending Atrial Fibrillation – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND AI could enable accurate screening for atrial fibrillation – Mayo Clinic (free)

5 – Meta-Analysis of Oral Anticoagulant Monotherapy as an Antithrombotic Strategy in Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease and Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation – The American Journal of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Source: EvidenceAlerts

6 – High-precision plasma β-amyloid 42/40 predicts current and future brain amyloidosis – Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Blood test may accurately identify people with early Alzheimer’s brain changes – Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (free) AND The new blood test for Alzheimer’s disease: developed in a study without patients – Medium (free)

7 – A Brain Scan May Predict Alzheimer’s. Should You Get One? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

8 – Breastfeeding: A round up of Cochrane evidence – Evidently Cochrane (free)

9 – Celiac disease: a comprehensive current review – BMC Medicine (free)

Related Guidelines: European Society for the Study of Coeliac Disease (ESsCD) guideline for coeliac disease and other gluten-related disorders (free) AND ACG Clinical Guidelines: Diagnosis and Management of Celiac Disease (free) AND Coeliac Disease: Recognition, Assessment and Management – NICE Guideline (free)

10 – If You Smoke Pot, Your Anesthesiologist Needs To Know – Kaiser Health News (free)

Related: Perioperative care of cannabis users: A comprehensive review of pharmacological and anesthetic considerations – Journal of Clinical Anesthesia (free)

“One small study of Colorado patients published in May found marijuana users required more than triple the amount of one common sedation medicine, propofol, as did nonusers.”