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Even slight changes within the normal Apgar score range (7-10) from five to 10 minutes have a major influence in the risks of cerebral palsy and epilepsy.

9 – Management of patients on antithrombotic agents undergoing emergency and elective endoscopy: joint Asian Pacific Association of Gastroenterology (APAGE) and Asian Pacific Society for Digestive Endoscopy (APSDE) practice guidelines – Gut (free)

10 – Effectiveness of Family Integrated Care in neonatal intensive care units on infant and parent outcomes: a multicentre, multinational, cluster-randomised controlled trial – The Lancet child & Adolescent Health (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Premature babies healthier when parents help with hospital care, study shows – The Guardian (free) AND Preemies Fared Better When Parents Helped with NICU Care – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Parents’ care can help premature babies in hospital, says study – BBC News (free)

Thu, February 8 – 10 Stories of The Day!

8 Feb, 2018 | 00:15h | UTC

1 – Guideline: Pancreatic cancer in adults: diagnosis and management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

News release: Pancreatic cancer patients should be offered early scans to avoid unnecessary surgery, says NICE (free)

2 – Intraoperative interventions for preventing surgical site infection: an overview of Cochrane Reviews – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Overview of Cochrane Reviews of interventions used during surgery for preventing surgical site infection (free)

3 – Prognostic Accuracy of the Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment for Mortality in Patients With Suspected Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: For mortality prediction, qSOFA has poor sensitivity, moderate specificity, review finds – ACP Hospitalist (free) AND Systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria may be more sensitive than quick sequential organ failure assessment for predicting mortality in patients with suspected infection – 2 Minute Medicine (free)

4 – Opinion: This flu season, physicians need to scrap the ‘martyr culture’ of working while sick – STAT (free) (via @CMichaelGibson)

5 – New cellphone and health studies don’t eliminate uncertainty – Science (free)

Other commentaries: Largest Animal Study of Cell Phone Radiation and Cancer Risk – Medscape (free registration required) AND High doses of cellphone radiation linked to some cancers in rats – STAT (free) AND Cell phone radiation: Could high exposure cause tumors? – Medical News Today (free)

6 – Care-Centered Clinical Documentation in the Digital Environment: Solutions to Alleviate Burnout – National Academy of Medicine (free)

Related Infographic: Date Night with the EHR – NEJM Catalyst (free)

7 – ISPOR 2018 – Top 10 Health Economics and Outcomes Research Trends (free PDF)

Commentary: Top 10 Trends Driving Healthcare in 2018 – NewsWise (free)

8 – Report: Global Monitoring of Disease Outbreak Preparedness: Preventing the Next Pandemics – Harvard Global Health Institute (free PDF)

See also: News Release (free) AND Summary report (free PDF)

9 – Preoperative exercise halves the postoperative complication rate in patients with lung cancer: a systematic review of the effect of exercise on complications, length of stay and quality of life in patients with cancer – British Journal of Sports Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Regular exercise halves complication rate after lung cancer surgery – eCancer News (free) AND Lung Cancer Postoperative Complications Reduced With Preoperative Exercise – Pulmonology Advisor (free)

10 – Association of Preoperatively Diagnosed Patent Foramen Ovale With Perioperative Ischemic Stroke – JAMA (free for a period)

Commentaries: PFO Diagnosis Linked With Increased Risk of Perioperative Ischemic Stroke After Noncardiac Surgery – TCTMD (free) AND Preoperatively Diagnosed PFO and Perioperative Stroke – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)

Tue, February 6 – 10 Stories of The Day!

6 Feb, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC

2 – Viewpoint: Vitamin and Mineral Supplements: What Clinicians Need to Know – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a period)

3 – Effect of Hot Tea Consumption and Its Interactions With Alcohol and Tobacco Use on the Risk for Esophageal Cancer: A Population-Based Cohort Study – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Hot tea tied to higher cancer risk for smokers and drinkers – Reuters (free) AND Very hot tea can raise risk of oesophageal cancer, suggests study – The Guardian (free) AND Hot Tea and Increased Risk for Esophageal Cancer – Medscape (free registration required)

4 – Social exclusion heightens risk of death across many health conditions – NIHR Signal (free)

Original Article: Morbidity and mortality in homeless individuals, prisoners, sex workers, and individuals with substance use disorders in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis – The Lancet (free) AND Commentary: Inclusion health: addressing the causes of the causes (free) AND Review: What works in inclusion health: overview of effective interventions for marginalised and excluded populations (free registration required)

5 – Risk of pre-eclampsia in women taking metformin: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Diabetic Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Source: ACP Journal Wise ($)

“Metformin was associated with lower gestational weight gain and a lower risk of pre-eclampsia compared with insulin”

6 – Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia in the Patient Who Is Critically Ill – Chest (free)

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

7 – Richard Smith: Doctors and patients heading in opposite directions – The BMJ Opinion (free)

“Patients increasingly have multiple conditions, while doctors continue remorseless specialisation and subspecialisation. What are the consequences of this divergence?” (via @bmj_latest see Tweet)

8 – Hydroxyethyl-starch solutions (HES) should no longer be used in patients with sepsis or burn injuries or in critically ill patients – European Medicines Agency (free)

Press release: Hydroxyethyl-starch solutions for infusion to be suspended (free)

Source: EMA calls for hydroxyethyl starch solutions to be taken off market – The BMJ News ($)

9 – 5 ways poorly thought out health IT can worsen patient safety – KevinMD.com (free)

10 – Use of social media is associated with short sleep duration in a dose–response manner in students aged 11 to 20 years – Acta Paediatrica (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Social media use linked to lack of sleep in students – Wiley, via EurekAlert (free)

See also a recent Pediatrics supplement: Children, Adolescents and Screens: What We Know and What We Need To Learn (series of free articles) and related articles on Social Media and Mental Health

Research: Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation with Heart Failure

5 Feb, 2018 | 16:51h | UTC

Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation with Heart Failure – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Catheter ablation better than pharmacological atrial fibrillation therapies – University of Utah Health, via EurekAlert (free)

“In patients w/heart failure & atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation lowers rate of death and hospitalization for worsening HF vs. medical therapy”. (via @NEJM see Tweet)