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Review: Diagnostic and Clinical Significance of T Wave Inversion in Athletes
1 Mar, 2018 | 21:52h | UTC
Review: Best supportive care for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
1 Mar, 2018 | 21:50h | UTCPublicar daqui a alguns dias e colocar link para revisões e guidelines recentes
Wed, February 28 – 10 Stories of The Day!
28 Feb, 2018 | 01:03h | UTC
1 – Balanced Crystalloids versus Saline in Critically Ill Adults – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
Related article: Balanced Crystalloids versus Saline in Noncritically Ill Adults – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
Commentary: Balanced Crystalloids May Be Better Than Saline for Critically Ill Patients – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free)
“Balanced crystalloids may be superior to saline in critically ill patients — but not in patients hospitalized outside an ICU” (from Physician’s First Watch)
2 – Impact of Bystander Automated External Defibrillator Use on Survival and Functional Outcomes in Shockable Observed Public Cardiac Arrests – Circulation (free PDF for a limited period)
Commentary: Bystander defibrillator use tied to better cardiac arrest outcomes – Reuters (free)
Related articles: The Effects of Public Access Defibrillation on Survival After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies – Circulation (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND Bystander Efforts and 1-Year Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest – New England Journal of Medicine (Link to abstract – $ for full-text)
3 – Medical Education: Hidden Curricula, Ethics, and Professionalism: Optimizing Clinical Learning Environments in Becoming and Being a Physician: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)
News Release: ACP calls on medicine to optimize learning environments by aligning positive ’hidden’ curriculum with formal curriculum of medical education (free)
Related guideline: Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Management: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes, 2018 – American Diabetes Association (free)
News release: New Cochrane Review evidence suggests that nutritional labelling on menus in restaurants and cafes may reduce our calorie intake (free)
Video: Nutritional labelling for healthier food or non alcoholic purchasing and consumption (free)
Commentary: Expert reaction to Cochrane review on nutrition labelling and calorie intake – Science Media Centre (free)
“For a typical lunch with an intake of 600 calories, such as a slice of pizza and a soft drink, labelling may reduce the energy content of food purchased by about 8% (48 calories)”
7 – Association Between Bariatric Surgery and Rates of Continuation, Discontinuation, or Initiation of Antidiabetes Treatment 6 Years Later – JAMA Surgery (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Bariatric Surgery Associated With Reduced Need For Diabetes Medications at Six Years – MedicalResearch (free) AND Roughly Half of Obese Patients Who Have Bariatric Surgery Are Off Type 2 Diabetes Meds at 6 Years – TCTMD (free)
See related studies on the long-term effects of Bariatric Surgery in our January 17th issue (see #1, #2 and #3)
8 – Pediatric Palliative Care for Children with Progressive Non-Malignant Diseases – Children (free)
9 – Plastic Additive BPA Not Much Of A Threat, Government Study Finds – NPR (free)
See original FDA statement on National Toxicology Program draft report on Bisphenol A (free) AND Endocrine Society Experts Express Concern with FDA Statement on BPA Safety – Endocrine Society, via NewsWise (free)
See also: Cardiac Arrest in the Operating Room: Part 2—Special Situations in the Perioperative Period (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Review: Chronic interstitial lung disease in children
1 Mar, 2018 | 21:51h | UTCChronic interstitial lung disease in children – European Respiratory Review (free)
Thu, March 1 – 10 Stories of The Day!
1 Mar, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC
Commentaries: Hypertension: time for doctors to switch the driver’s seat? (free) AND Should home-based blood pressure monitoring be commonplace in NHS? – University of Oxford News & Events (free)
“Self-monitoring, with or without telemonitoring, when used by general practitioners to titrate antihypertensive medication in individuals with poorly controlled blood pressure, leads to significantly lower blood pressure than titration guided by clinic readings”.
Editorial: Treatment or surveillance for CIN2? (free)
Commentaries: Treatment or surveillance for CIN2: when less is more – The BMJ Opinion (free) AND Some irregular cervical lesions could be monitored rather that treated immediately – OnMedica (free) AND Regular monitoring rather than immediate treatment justified for some cervical lesions – EurekAlert (free)
Related guideline: ACG Clinical Guideline: Management of Benign Anorectal Disorders – The American Journal of Gastroenterology (free)
4 – Association of Varicose Veins With Incident Venous Thromboembolism and Peripheral Artery Disease – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Patients with varicose veins at greater risk for thrombosis, other vascular diseases – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND Varicose Veins Linked to Greater Risk for VTE, PAD – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Varicose Veins May Increase Likelihood of Blood Clots – Physician’s Weekly (free)
5 – Sex Differences in the Association Between Measures of General and Central Adiposity and the Risk of Myocardial Infarction: Results From the UK Biobank – Journal of the American Heart Association (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Wait and hip measurement better indicator of heart attack risk than obesity – OnMedica (free) AND Larger waist, hips may raise women’s heart attack risk – MedicalNewsToday (free)
Commentary: Frailty associated with readmission risk and postdischarge mortality in older surgical patients – ACP Hospitalist (free)
Related Systematic Review: Identifying older adults at risk of harm following elective surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis – BMC Medicine (free) AND Commentary: Age itself is not a risk factor for complications after surgery among older patients – OnMedica (free)
Related guideline: Social anxiety disorder: recognition, assessment and treatment – NICE (free) AND Summary: Recognition, assessment and treatment of social anxiety disorder: summary of NICE guidance – The BMJ (free)
8 – Patterns and Predictors of Short-Term Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter Use: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free PDF)
Commentary: Short-term use of IV devices is common — and risky — study shows – University of Michigan, via ScienceDaily (free)
“Intravenous devices known as PICCs should be reserved for long-term use, but a new study shows 1 in 4 are used for 5 days or less” (from ScienceDaily)
9 – Real-World Effectiveness of Pharmacologic Treatments for the Prevention of Rehospitalization in a Finnish Nationwide Cohort of Patients With Bipolar Disorder – JAMA Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Editorial: Enthusiasm and Skepticism About Using National Registers to Analyze Psychotropic Drug Outcomes (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Lithium treatment for bipolar disorder linked to lowest risk of rehospitalization – Karolinska Institutet, via EurekAlert (free) AND Lithium Top Choice for Preventing Bipolar Rehospitalization – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Related study: Effectiveness of maintenance therapy of lithium vs other mood stabilizers in monotherapy and in combinations: a systematic review of evidence from observational studies – Bipolar Disorders (free)
These observational studies suggest Lithium may be a better choice for treating these patients, but long-term randomized controlled trials are needed to clarify this issue (see editorial).
10 – Beta-blocker Therapy and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Moderate COPD and Heightened Cardiovascular Risk: An Observational Sub-study of SUMMIT – Annals of the American Thoracic Society (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Beta-blockers may not change COPD lung function – Univadis (free registration required)
Related review and meta-analysis: Beta-blockers in patients with chronic obstructive disease and coexistent cardiac illnesses – COPD Research and Practice (free) AND Beta-blocker use and COPD mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis – BMC Pulmonary Medicine (free)
Related observational studies: β-Blockers in COPD: A Cohort Study From the TONADO Research Program – CHEST (free) AND Effect of β blockers in treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a retrospective cohort study – The BMJ (free)
Guideline: Management of Anaemia and Iron Deficiency in Patients with Cancer
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:22h | UTC
Systematic Review: Interventions to prevent hemodynamic instability during renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:24h | UTC
WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:23h | UTC
Fever of Unknown Origin: the Value of FDG-PET/CT
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:20h | UTCFever of Unknown Origin: the Value of FDG-PET/CT – Seminars in Nuclear Medicine (free)
Guidelines for Recognition of Occupational Cancers
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:19h | UTC
Identifying Medical Diagnoses and Treatable Diseases by Image-Based Deep Learning
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:20h | UTCIdentifying Medical Diagnoses and Treatable Diseases by Image-Based Deep Learning – Cell (free)
Commentary: Artificial intelligence quickly and accurately diagnoses eye diseases and pneumonia – University of California, via ScienceDaily (free)
Review: Pediatric Palliative Care for Children with Progressive Non-Malignant Diseases
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:17h | UTCPediatric Palliative Care for Children with Progressive Non-Malignant Diseases – Children (free)
EM Cases: Emergency Radiology Controversies
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:16h | UTCEM Cases: Emergency Radiology Controversies – emDocs (free)
Review – Multiple Sclerosis: Mechanisms and Immunotherapy
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:16h | UTCReview: Multiple Sclerosis: Mechanisms and Immunotherapy – Neuron (free)
A paradigm shift on beta-thalassaemia treatment: How will we manage this old disease with new therapies?
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:11h | UTC
Plastic Additive BPA Not Much Of A Threat, Government Study Finds
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:15h | UTCPlastic Additive BPA Not Much Of A Threat, Government Study Finds – NPR (free)
See original FDA statement on National Toxicology Program draft report on Bisphenol A (free) AND Endocrine Society Experts Express Concern with FDA Statement on BPA Safety – Endocrine Society, via NewsWise (free)
Deep Learning for Biology
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:11h | UTCDeep learning for biology – Nature (free)
“A popular artificial-intelligence method provides a powerful tool for surveying and classifying biological data. But for the uninitiated, the technology poses significant difficulties”.
Systematic Review: Surgery for Trigger Finger
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:10h | UTCSurgery for trigger finger – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Review: Prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:10h | UTCPrenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease: A review of current knowledge – Indian Heart Journal (free)
Review: Takotsubo Syndrome
27 Feb, 2018 | 16:39h | UTCTakotsubo syndrome – Indian Heart Journal (free)
Related articles: Stress cardiomyopathy of the critically ill: Spectrum of secondary, global, probable and subclinical forms – Indian Heart Journal (free) AND Clinical Features and Outcomes of Takotsubo (Stress) Cardiomyopathy – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND The challenge of Takotsubo syndrome: heterogeneity of clinical features – Swiss Medical Weekly (free) AND Clinical Management of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy – Circulation Journal (free)
Research: Pregnancy Outcomes in Women With Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease
27 Feb, 2018 | 16:38h | UTCEditorial: Rheumatic Heart Disease in Pregnancy: Global Challenges and Clear Opportunities (free)
EANM guidelines for radionuclide therapy of bone metastases with beta-emitting radionuclides
27 Feb, 2018 | 17:09h | UTC
Review: Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma
27 Feb, 2018 | 16:38h | UTCPheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma – Endotext (free)
Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children: the Challenges of Microbiological Diagnosis
27 Feb, 2018 | 16:34h | UTCSource: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Review: Skin Manifestations of Diabetes Mellitus
27 Feb, 2018 | 16:37h | UTCSkin Manifestations of Diabetes Mellitus – Endotext (free)