Mon February 10 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Septic Shock and Sepsis-Associated Organ Dysfunction in Children – Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (free)

Executive Summary: Executive Summary: Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Septic Shock and Sepsis-Associated Organ Dysfunction in Children (free)

2 – De-implementing wisely: developing the evidence base to reduce low-value care – BMJ Quality & Safety (free) (via @brhospitalist)

3 – Gastrointestinal bleeding and the risk of colorectal cancer in anticoagulated patients with atrial fibrillation – European Heart Journal (free)

Commentary: GI Bleeding and Colorectal Cancer Risk in Anticoagulated AF Patients – American College of Cardiology (free) AND GI bleeding often mistaken as side effect of blood thinners when it could indicate cancer – Cardiovascular Business (free)

4 – Clinical Update: Diagnosis and Management of Primary Hyperparathyroidism – JAMA (free for a limited period)

5 – Potential Consequences of Changing Disease Classifications – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Author Interview: Potential Consequences of Changing Disease Classifications (free audio)

6 – Abolish the Tilt Table Test for the Workup of Syncope! – Circulation (free for a limited period)

7 – Dietary Modification and Breast Cancer Mortality: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Trial – Journal of Clinical Oncology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Related: Commentaries before publication at the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting (free)

8 – Clinical Cancer Advances 2020: Annual Report on Progress Against Cancer From the American Society of Clinical Oncology – Journal of Clinical Oncology (free)

9 – Novel Coronavirus – Selected News & Perspectives / 10 February 2020

See also: WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 9 February 2020 (free PDF)

• China nCoV cases continue at stable rate, concerns rise about spread in Singapore – CIDRAP (free)
• Coronavirus—Unknown Source, Unrecognized Spread, and Pandemic Potential – Think Global Health (free)
• WHO cautions that transmission of the new coronavirus outside of China could increase – STAT (free)
• New Report on 138 Coronavirus Cases Reveals Disturbing Details – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
• New study an eye-opener on how coronavirus is spreading and how little we know – CNN (free)
• Concerns mount about coronavirus spreading in hospitals, study suggests – CNN (free) A
• Demand for masks soars 100-fold, disrupting coronavirus fight: WHO – Reuters (free)
• China Begins Testing an Antiviral Drug in Coronavirus Patients – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
• Could an old malaria drug help fight the new coronavirus? – ASBMB (free)
• Did pangolins spread the China coronavirus to people? – Nature (free)
• Scientists question work suggesting pangolin coronavirus link – Reuters (free)
• The US coronavirus travel ban could backfire. Here’s how – CNN (free)
• Coronavirus: WHO chief warns against ‘trolls and conspiracy theories’ – BBC (free)

10 – Novel Coronavirus – Latest Articles / 10 February 2020

See also: WHO: Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Situation Report – 9 February 2020 (free PDF)

Guidelines:

• A rapid advice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infected pneumonia (standard version) – Military Medical Research (free)
• Diagnosis and treatment recommendations for pediatric respiratory infection caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus – World Journal of Pediatrics (free)

Top Articles / Articles in High Impact Journals:

• Clinical Characteristics of 138 Hospitalized Patients With 2019 Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China – JAMA (free) AND Commentaries: New study an eye-opener on how coronavirus is spreading and how little we know – CNN (free) AND Concerns mount about coronavirus spreading in hospitals, study suggests – CNN (free) AND New Report on 138 Coronavirus Cases Reveals Disturbing Details – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
• Preprint: Clinical characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus infection in China – medRxiv (free PDF) (via @greg_folkers see Tweet) (Preprint with description of 1099 patients).
• Epidemiologic and Clinical Characteristics of Novel Coronavirus Infections Involving 13 Patients Outside Wuhan, China – JAMA (free)
• Novel coronavirus infection during the 2019–2020 epidemic: preparing intensive care units—the experience in Sichuan Province, China – Intensive Care Medicine (free)
• Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit the recently emerged novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in vitro – Cell Research (free) AND Commentaries: China Begins Testing an Antiviral Drug in Coronavirus Patients – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Could an old malaria drug help fight the new coronavirus? – ASBMB (free)
• Viral Metagenomics Revealed Sendai Virus and Coronavirus Infection of Malayan Pangolins (Manis javanica) – Viruses (free) AND Commentaries: Did pangolins spread the China coronavirus to people? – Nature (free) AND Scientists question work suggesting pangolin coronavirus link – Reuters (free)
• Scientists are racing to model the next moves of a coronavirus that’s still hard to predict – Science (free)
• China coronavirus: labs worldwide scramble to analyse live samples – Nature (free)
• Emerging Coronavirus 2019-nCoV Pneumonia – Radiology (free)

Podcast:

• The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak – Update From NIAID’s Anthony Fauci, MD – JAMA (free audio)

Other Articles:

• Offline: 2019-nCoV—“A desperate plea” – The Lancet (free)
• Game consumption and the 2019 novel coronavirus – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free)
• Pathogenicity and Transmissibility of 2019-nCoV—A Quick Overview and Comparison with Other Emerging Viruses – Microbes and Infection (free)
• Molecular Diagnosis of a Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Causing an Outbreak of Pneumonia – Clinical Chemistry (free PDF)
• 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): estimating the case fatality rate – a word of caution – Swiss Medical Weekly (free)
• A contingency plan for the management of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in neonatal intensive care units – The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (free)
• Timely mental health care for the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak is urgently needed – The Lancet Psychiatry (free)
• Revisiting the dangers of the coronavirus in the ophthalmology practice – Eye (free)
• China bans sale of wildlife following coronavirus – VetRecord (free)
• Evolving status of the 2019 novel coronavirus Infection: proposal of conventional serologic assays for disease diagnosis and infection monitoring – Journal of Medical Virology (free PDF)
• Genomic variance of the 2019‐nCoV coronavirus – Journal of Medical Virology (free PDF)
• Novel coronavirus is putting the whole world on alert – The Journal of Hospital Infection (free)
• Estimating the Unreported Number of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Cases in China in the First Half of January 2020: A Data-Driven Modelling Analysis of the Early Outbreak – Journal of Clinical Medicine (free PDF)
• Evolution of CT Manifestations in a Patient Recovered from 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Pneumonia in Wuhan, China – Radiology (free)
• CT Manifestations of Two Cases of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Pneumonia – Radiology (free)
• Coronavirus in China – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine (free)

Preprints:

• Preparedness and vulnerability of African countries against introductions of 2019-nCoV – medRxiv (free PDF)
• Reconciling early-outbreak estimates of the basic reproductive number and its uncertainty: a new framework and applications to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak – medRxiv (free PDF)
• Analysis of the epidemic growth of the early 2019-nCoV outbreak using internationally confirmed cases – medRxiv (free PDF)
• Incorporating Human Movement Data to Improve Epidemiological Estimates for 2019-nCoV – medRxiv (free PDF)