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NCCN Guidelines Insights: Palliative Care.

4 Aug, 2021 | 09:02h | UTC

NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Palliative Care, Version 2.2021 – Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

 

Spontaneous pneumomediastinum in patients diagnosed with covid-19: a case series with review of literature.

4 Aug, 2021 | 09:13h | UTC

Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum in Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19: a Case Series with Review of Literature – Academic Radiology

 

Clinical practice recommendations on the management of perioperative cardiac arrest.

4 Aug, 2021 | 09:03h | UTC

Clinical practice recommendations on the management of perioperative cardiac arrest: A report from the PERIOPCA Consortium – Critical Care

 

How much worse can the coronavirus get?

4 Aug, 2021 | 09:09h | UTC

How much worse can the coronavirus get? – Vox

 

SCAI expert consensus update on best practices in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.

4 Aug, 2021 | 09:04h | UTC

SCAI expert consensus update on best practices in the cardiac catheterization laboratory – Catheterization & Cardiovascular Interventions

Commentary: SCAI Expert Consensus Update on Best Practices in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: Optimizing Quality of Care – American College of Cardiology

Related:

AHA Scientific Statement: Evidence-based practices in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.

 

RCT: Effect of an active vs. expectant management strategy on successful resolution of pregnancy among patients with a persisting pregnancy of unknown location.

4 Aug, 2021 | 09:00h | UTC

Effect of an Active vs Expectant Management Strategy on Successful Resolution of Pregnancy Among Patients With a Persisting Pregnancy of Unknown Location: The ACT or NOT Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Active Management More Effective for Pregnancy of Unknown Location – MedPage Today (free registration required)

 

RCT: Routine treatment with fluoxetine does not reduce the incidence of depression after stroke.

4 Aug, 2021 | 08:56h | UTC

Depression Outcomes Among Patients Treated With Fluoxetine for Stroke Recovery: The AFFINITY Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Neurology (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Poststroke Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors—Do They Work for Anything? (free for a limited period)

Related:

[Abstract Only] Randomized trial: Fluoxetine does not improve functional recovery after acute stroke

Randomized Trial: Effects of Fluoxetine on Functional Outcomes After Acute Stroke

 

Interpreting the results of intention-to-treat, per-protocol, and as-treated analyses of clinical trials.

4 Aug, 2021 | 08:57h | UTC

Interpreting the Results of Intention-to-Treat, Per-Protocol, and As-Treated Analyses of Clinical Trials – JAMA

 

Ketogenic Diets and Chronic Disease: Weighing the Benefits Against the Risks – “Given often-temporary improvements, unfavorable effects on dietary intake, and inadequate data demonstrating long-term safety, for most individuals, the risks of ketogenic diets may outweigh the benefits.”

4 Aug, 2021 | 08:53h | UTC

Ketogenic Diets and Chronic Disease: Weighing the Benefits Against the Risks – Frontiers in Nutrition

Commentary: Keto diets review finds heart risks, cancer risk, dangers to pregnant women and kidney patients – Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

 

RCT: Effect of a sedation and ventilator liberation protocol vs. usual care on duration of invasive mechanical ventilation in pediatric intensive care units.

4 Aug, 2021 | 08:59h | UTC

Effect of a Sedation and Ventilator Liberation Protocol vs Usual Care on Duration of Invasive Mechanical Ventilation in Pediatric Intensive Care Units: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

RCT: Midodrine can reduce the recurrence of vasovagal syncope.

4 Aug, 2021 | 08:54h | UTC

Midodrine for the Prevention of Vasovagal Syncope: A Randomized Clinical Trial – Annals of Internal Medicine

Commentary: Midodrine Cuts Recurrent Syncope in Young, Healthy Patients – HealthDay

Summary for patients: Summary for Patients: Midodrine to Prevent Fainting – Annals of Internal Medicine

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

M-A: Noninvasive respiratory support outside the intensive care unit for acute respiratory failure related to coronavirus-19 disease.

3 Aug, 2021 | 09:09h | UTC

Noninvasive respiratory support outside the intensive care unit for acute respiratory failure related to coronavirus-19 disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Critical Care

 

Radiologists use structured CT reports to create database of metastatic cancer patterns.

4 Aug, 2021 | 08:51h | UTC

Radiologists use structured CT reports to create database of metastatic cancer patterns – Health Imaging

Original study: Patterns of Metastatic Disease in Patients with Cancer Derived from Natural Language Processing of Structured CT Radiology Reports over a 10-year Period – Radiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

 

Cohort study: Six month follow-up of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children.

3 Aug, 2021 | 09:05h | UTC

Six Month Follow-up of Patients With Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children – Pediatrics (PDF)

 

Cohort study: Risk factors for long covid in previously hospitalized children.

3 Aug, 2021 | 09:06h | UTC

Risk factors for long covid in previously hospitalised children using the ISARIC Global follow-up protocol: A prospective cohort study – European Respiratory Review

Commentaries:

Study investigates long-term sequelae of COVID-19 in hospitalized children – News Medical

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ COVID (neutralizing antibodies).

3 Aug, 2021 | 09:01h | UTC

A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ COVID – Nature

Related:

A correlate of protection for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines is urgently needed – “Recent studies suggest that neutralizing antibodies could serve as a correlate of protection for vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in humans”.

Neutralizing antibody levels are highly predictive of immune protection from symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Covid-19 breakthrough infections in vaccinated health care workers.

 

Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19 Pneumonia: 6-month Chest CT Follow-up.

3 Aug, 2021 | 09:02h | UTC

Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19 Pneumonia: 6-month Chest CT Follow-up – Radiology

 

Covid: Pulse oxygen monitors work less well on darker skin, experts say.

3 Aug, 2021 | 09:00h | UTC

Covid: Pulse oxygen monitors work less well on darker skin, experts say – BBC

Related:

FDA issues alert on ‘limitations’ of pulse oximeters, without explicit mention of racial bias

“Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement”. In two large cohorts, Black patients had nearly three times the frequency of occult hypoxemia that was not detected by pulse oximetry as White patients

 

Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.

3 Aug, 2021 | 08:57h | UTC

Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. – MIT Technology Review

 

WHO special envoys: To beat Covid, there’s a simple lesson – no one’s safe until everyone’s safe.

3 Aug, 2021 | 08:58h | UTC

To beat Covid, there’s a simple lesson – no one’s safe until everyone’s safe – The Guardian

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

WHO Urges Countries to Increase Hepatitis Services.

3 Aug, 2021 | 02:26h | UTC

WHO Urges Countries to Increase Hepatitis Services – Health Policy Watch

WHO Campaign: World Hepatitis Day (28 July)

New WHO guidelines:

Recommendations and guidance on hepatitis C virus self-testing – World Health Organization

Interim guidance for country validation of viral hepatitis elimination – World Health Organization

 

AHA Scientific Statement: Considerations for cardiovascular genetic and genomic research with marginalized racial and ethnic groups and indigenous peoples.

3 Aug, 2021 | 02:24h | UTC

Considerations for Cardiovascular Genetic and Genomic Research With Marginalized Racial and Ethnic Groups and Indigenous Peoples: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association – Circulation

News release: New statement provides path to include ethnicity, ancestry, race in genomic research – American Heart Association

 

WHO Advocacy Brief: Scale, impact, and harms of social isolation and loneliness among older people.

3 Aug, 2021 | 02:29h | UTC

Social Isolation and Loneliness – World Health Organization

 

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

 

Prevalence, costs, and consequences of low-value preprocedural urinalyses in the US.

3 Aug, 2021 | 02:13h | UTC

Prevalence, Costs, and Consequences of Low-Value Preprocedural Urinalyses in the US – JAMA Internal Medicine

Editorial: Moving Beyond Guidelines—Use of Value-Based Preoperative Testing (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Preoperative screening urinalysis is widely used—but usually unnecessary, study finds – MedicalXpress

 

M-A: Association between adiposity and cardiovascular outcomes.

3 Aug, 2021 | 02:11h | UTC

Association between adiposity and cardiovascular outcomes: an umbrella review and meta-analysis of observational and Mendelian randomization studies – European Heart Journal

 

Commentary on Twitter

 

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