Mon, February 18 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Treatment of Adult Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Positive Airway Pressure: An American Academy of Sleep Medicine Clinical Practice Guideline – Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (free)

News Release: AASM publishes clinical practice guideline on use of PAP therapy for sleep apnea (free)

Related Podcast: Sleep Apnea Pearls and Pitfalls (free)

2 – 2019 Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology Guidelines on the Acute Management of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Focused Update on Regionalization and Reperfusion – Canadian Journal of Cardiology (free)

Related Guideline: 2018 ESC/EACTS Guidelines on myocardial revascularization – European Heart Journal (free)

3 – Homepage: FIGO Working Group on Good Clinical Practice in Maternal–Fetal Medicine – International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics (free articles)

– Good clinical practice advice: Micronutrients in the periconceptional period and pregnancy

– Good clinical practice advice: Iron deficiency anemia in pregnancy

– Good clinical practice advice: First trimester screening and prevention of pre‐eclampsia in singleton pregnancy

– Good clinical practice advice: Management of twin pregnancy

– Good clinical practice advice: Role of ultrasound in the management of twin pregnancy

– Good clinical practice advice: Prediction of preterm labor and preterm premature rupture of membranes

– Good clinical practice advice: Thyroid and pregnancy

– Good clinical practice advice: Antenatal corticosteroids for fetal lung maturation

4 – Managing malignant pleural effusion – Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (free)

Related Guidelines: Management of Malignant Pleural Effusions. An Official ATS/STS/STR Clinical Practice Guideline – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (free) AND ERS/EACTS statement on the management of malignant pleural effusions – European Respiratory Journal (free)

5 – Dialysis Is a Way of Life for Many Older Patients. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Related: Editorial: Prioritizing Patient and Caregiver Values in the Delivery of High-Quality Medical Management Without Dialysis (free)

 “So-called conservative management can ease symptoms without dialysis in some people with kidney disease. But many of them are never given the option.”

6 – Recommendations from European Breast Guidelines – European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer (free)

News Release: New recommendations published: screening intervals and more (free)

7 – Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory infections: individual participant data meta-analysis – Health Technology Assessment (free)

8 – Management of Acute Respiratory Failure Due to Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Systematic Review – Medical Sciences (free)

9 – How long does a hip replacement last? A systematic review and meta-analysis of case series and national registry reports with more than 15 years of follow-up – The Lancet (free)

Commentaries: Survival of total hip replacements – The Lancet (free) AND Longevity of hip, knee replacements in OA patients estimated – medwire News (free) AND Most hip and knee replacements ‘last longer than thought’ – BBC News (free)

10 – Homepage: Special Issue: Spinal Infections: From Prevention to Cure – Global Spine Journal (free articles)

– Editorial

– Surgical Site Infections in Spine Surgery: Preoperative Prevention Strategies to Minimize Risk

– Postoperative Spine Infection: Diagnosis and Management

– Risk Factors and Prevention of Surgical Site Infections Following Spinal Procedures

– Presentation and Outcomes After Medical and Surgical Treatment Versus Medical Treatment Alone of Spontaneous Infectious Spondylodiscitis: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis

– Etiology and Surgical Management of Cervical Spinal Epidural Abscess (SEA):: A Systematic Review

– Thoracic Epidural Abscesses: A Systematic Review

– Lumbar Epidural Abscesses: A Systematic Review

– Spinal Tuberculosis: Current Concepts