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Guideline: Management of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension

29 Jun, 2018 | 02:06h | UTC

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: consensus guidelines on management – Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry (free)

Thu, June 28 – 10 Stories of The Day!

28 Jun, 2018 | 00:02h | UTC

1 – Heat-Stable Carbetocin versus Oxytocin to Prevent Hemorrhage after Vaginal Birth – New England Journal of Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Heat-stable drug could save thousands from post-childbirth bleeding: WHO – Reuters (free) AND Saving Moms’ Lives During Childbirth Just Got Easier – NPR (free)

2 – Clinical Report: The Prenatal Visit – The American Academy of Pediatrics (free)

News Release: What to cover during prenatal visit: AAP clinical report offers guidance – AAP News (free)

Commentaries: Urge expectant parents to have prenatal pediatrician visit – Pediatric News (free) AND AAP updates recommendations for prenatal visits – Healio (free registration required)

3 – Guideline Synopsis: Management of Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Associated With Cardiac Channelopathies – JAMA Cardiology (free for a limited period)

Original Guideline: 2017 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death – Circulation (free PDF)

4 – Sex‐Specific Associations Between Alcohol Consumption and Incidence of Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of Cohort Studies – Journal of the American Heart Association (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Alcohol Consumption, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Health Across the Life Course: There Is No Such Thing as a One‐Size‐Fits‐All Approach (free)

Commentaries: Young binge drinkers may have higher heart risks – AHA Newsroom (free) AND Alcohol Intake Tied to Elevated Blood Pressure – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Binge drinking may increase heart risks for younger people – UPI (free)

5 – Dietary Recommendations for Adults With Psoriasis or Psoriatic Arthritis From the Medical Board of the National Psoriasis Foundation: A Systematic Review – JAMA Dermatology (link to abstract- $ for full-text)

Commentaries: What is the Role of Diet in Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis? – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND Dietary Changes Can Lessen Severity of Psoriatic Disease – Medscape (free registration required) AND Can Diet Help in Psoriasis? – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND NPF Dietary Recommendations for Psoriatic Disease – RheumNow (free)

6 – Perspective: FDA Repays Industry by Rushing Risky Drugs to Market – ProPublica (free)

7 – Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine Guideline on Intraoperative Management of Adult Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea – Anesthesia & Analgesia (free PDF)

8 – Nutritional Considerations in Pediatric Pancreatitis: A Position Paper from the NASPHAN Pancreas Committee and ESPHAN Cystic Fibrosis/Pancreas Working Group – Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (free)

Commentary: Pediatric pancreatitis: nutritional care recommendations from ESPGHAN-NASPGHAN – Univadis (free registration required)

9 – Systemic Therapy for Patients With Advanced Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2–Positive Breast Cancer: ASCO Clinical Practice Guideline Update – Journal of Clinical Oncology (free)

10 – Association of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thinning With Current and Future Cognitive Decline: A Study Using Optical Coherence Tomography – JAMA Neurology (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Eye Sign of Dementia Risk? Thinning of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND Are the Eyes Windows to Early Dementia? – MedPage Today (free registration required)

“A thinner Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer is associated with worse cognitive function in individuals without a neurodegenerative disease as well as greater likelihood of future cognitive decline”.

Wed, June 27 – 10 Stories of The Day!

27 Jun, 2018 | 00:02h | UTC

1 – Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement – JAMA (free)

Editorials: Screening for Osteoporosis (free) AND Osteoporosis Screening—2 Steps May Be Too Much for Women Younger Than 65 Years (free)

Author Interview: USPSTF Recommendation Statement: Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures (free)

See also: USPSTF Final Recommendation Statement (free)

2 – The Society for Vascular Surgery practice guidelines on follow-up after vascular surgery arterial procedures – Journal of Vascular Surgery (free)

3 – Recurrent Glioblastoma Treated with Recombinant Poliovirus – New England Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Exploiting Viruses to Treat Diseases (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Doctors Try Genetically Modified Poliovirus As Experimental Brain Cancer Treatment – NPR (free) AND Poliovirus therapy shows early promise in patients with aggressive brain cancer but questions linger – STAT (free)

4 – Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery for Glycemic Control in Noncritical Care – New England Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Improved Glycemic Control With Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery System – Endocrinology Advisor (free) AND Closed-Loop Diabetes Systems (Artificial Pancreas) Can Be Used For Inpatient Care – MedicalResearch.com (free)

5 – Different defibrillation strategies in survivors after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – Heart (free)

Commentary: Onsite defibrillators helping to increase cardiac arrest survival – Reuters (free)

Related Studies: Impact of Bystander Automated External Defibrillator Use on Outcomes (free study and commentaries) AND Use of public defibrillators linked to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Bystander Efforts and 1-Year Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (link to abstract and commentaries)

6 – Deprescribing Proton Pump Inhibitors – Therapeutics Initiative (free)

7 – Intentional Weight Loss for Overweight and Obese Knee Osteoarthritis Patients: Is More Better? – Arthritis Care & Research (free PDF)

Commentaries: Long-term weight loss of at least 20% helps improve outcomes in overweight, obese patients with knee osteoarthritis – ACP Internist (free) AND When it comes to weight loss in overweight and obese adults with knee osteoarthritis, more is better – Wiley, via ScienceDaily (free) AND More weight loss tied to less knee pain for obese people – Reuters (free) AND More Weight Loss Linked To Greater Decrease in Knee Arthritis Pain – MedicalResearch.com (free)

8 – The economic cost of inadequate sleep – Sleep (free)

Commentaries: Inadequate sleep could cost countries billions – Oxford University Press USA, via EurekAlert (free) AND Wake-up call: Sleepiness ‘epidemic’ costing global economies billions – The Sidney Morning Herald (free)

9 – Donepezil for dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Donepezil for people with dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease – Cochrane Library (free)

10 – Percutaneous Ablation Versus Partial and Radical Nephrectomy for T1a Renal Cancer: A Population-Based Analysis – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Percutaneous ablation may be preferred to nephrectomy for selected patients with early-stage renal cancer – ACP Internist (free) AND New Findings Support Ablation for Small Renal Tumors – Renal & Urology News (free)

“Percutaneous ablation for T1a renal cancer has similar 5-year survival rates to radical nephrectomy but with far fewer 30-day complications and less kidney failure (via @AnnalsofIM see Tweet)

ESMO Guideline: Diarrhea in Adult Cancer Patients

24 Jun, 2018 | 19:34h | UTC

Diarrhoea in adult cancer patients: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines – Annals of Oncology (free)

Mon, June 25 – 10 Stories of The Day!

25 Jun, 2018 | 00:38h | UTC

1 – Diarrhoea in adult cancer patients: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines – Annals of Oncology (free)

2 – Neonatal interventions for preventing cerebral palsy: an overview of Cochrane Systematic Reviews – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Interventions for babies from birth to one month of life for preventing cerebral palsy: an overview of Cochrane Systematic Reviews (free)

3 – Prophylactic abdominal drainage for pancreatic surgery – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Drain use after pancreatic surgery – Cochrane Library (free)

4 – Resuscitation Education Science: Educational Strategies to Improve Outcomes From Cardiac Arrest: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association – Circulation (free PDF)

See also: Highlights (free PDF) AND FAQs (free PDF) AND Infographic (free PDF)

5 – Perspective: Breathing Tubes Fail to Save Many Older Patients – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

“One-third of patients over age 65 die in the hospital after they are put on ventilators. Doctors are beginning to wonder if the procedure should be used so often”.

6 – Core Competencies in Evidence-Based Practice for Health Professionals: Consensus Statement Based on a Systematic Review and Delphi Survey – JAMA Network Open (free)

Editorial: Interprofessional Evidence-Based Practice Competencies: Equalizing the Playing Field (free)

“68 core competencies for evidence-based practice for health professionals, developed using systematic review & Delphi consensus process” (via @hildabast see Tweet)

7 – Association of Initiation of Basal Insulin Analogs vs Neutral Protamine Hagedorn Insulin With Hypoglycemia-Related Emergency Department Visits or Hospital Admissions and With Glycemic Control in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Revisiting NPH Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes: Is a Step Back the Path Forward? (free for a limited period)

Clinical Review Audio: Health Care Spending Gone Wild: Using Expensive Insulin Analogs With Few Clinical Advantages (free)

“Long-acting insulin analogs not associated with reduced hypoglycemia-related ED visits or hospital admissions when compared with NPH insulin, despite costing 5-10x as much” (via @jsross119 see Tweet)

8 – Long-term albumin administration in decompensated cirrhosis (ANSWER): an open-label randomised trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Spotlight on albumin in cirrhosis – ACP Gastroenterology (free)

9 – Sodium bicarbonate therapy for patients with severe metabolic acidaemia in the intensive care unit (BICAR-ICU): a multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled, phase 3 trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: BICAR-ICU – The Bottom Line (free)

“This study will reassure clinicians that already use sodium bicarbonate for correcting metabolic acidaemia, that this may delay and/or reduce the requirement for RRT. Equally, for those that opt to avoid sodium bicarbonate, there is no compelling evidence to change practice” (from The Bottom Line)

10 – Determinants of long-term clinical outcomes in patients with angina but without obstructive coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis – European Heart Journal (free)

Commentaries: Outcomes in Patients With Angina but Without Obstructive CAD – American College of Cardiology (free)

Tue, June 26 – 10 Stories of The Day!

26 Jun, 2018 | 00:09h | UTC

1 – Association of a Bundled Hospital-at-Home and 30-Day Postacute Transitional Care Program With Clinical Outcomes and Patient Experiences – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Hospital-at-Home Care Programs—Is the Hospital of the Future at Home? (free for a limited period)

Author Interview: Association of a Bundled Hospital-at-Home Program With Clinical Outcomes and Patient Experiences (free)

Commentaries: Hospital-at-Home Bundled Program Associated With Better Clinical Outcomes, Patient Experiences – AJMC (free) AND Clinical outcomes and patient experiences vastly improved with hospital at home – The Mont Sinai Hospital, via MedicalXpress (free) AND Hospital-at-Home Care a Potential Alternative to Inpatient Care – Physician’s First Watch (free)

2 – Advance care planning in dementia: recommendations for healthcare professionals – BMC Palliative Care (free)

Related: New Document for Patients: Advanced Health Directive for Dementia (free document and commentaries) AND Alzheimer’s? Your Paperwork May Not Be in Order – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

3 – Errors in estimating usual sodium intake by the Kawasaki formula alter its relationship with mortality: implications for public health – International Journal of Epidemiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Accurate measurements of sodium intake confirm relationship with mortality – ScienceDaily (free) AND Better estimate of intake more firmly links salt, death – UPI (free)

4 – Saline irrigation for allergic rhinitis – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Nasal saline for allergic rhinitis – Cochrane Library (free)

5 – Richard Lehman’s journal review, 25 June 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals.

6 – Update on difficult airway management with a proposal of a simplified algorithm, unified and applied to our daily clinical practice – Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology (free)

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

7 – Robot-assisted radical cystectomy versus open radical cystectomy in patients with bladder cancer (RAZOR): an open-label, randomised, phase 3, non-inferiority trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Robotic, Open Cystectomy Offer Comparable Bladder Cancer Outcomes – Renal & Urology News (free) AND RAZOR study: No differences in robotic vs open surgery for bladder cancer – Coloproctology News (free) AND Robotic surgery is no better than traditional surgery, bladder cancer study finds – The Washington Post (free)

8 – A Randomized Controlled Trial of Parent-Child Psychotherapy Targeting Emotion Development for Early Childhood Depression – The American Journal of Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Parent-Child Psychotherapy Leads to Improvements in Young Children With Depression – Psychiatric News Alert (free) AND Psychotherapeutic intervention shows promise for treating depression in preschool-aged children – NIH News Releases (free) AND Parent-child therapy helps young children with depression – Washington University School of Medicine, via ScienceDaily (free)

Related Study: Talking therapy given by parents shows promise for childhood anxiety disorders (free research, editorial and commentaries)

9 – Association Between Oxygen Saturation Targeting and Death or Disability in Extremely Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Oxygenation Prospective Meta-analysis Collaboration – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Oxygen for preterm infants, what dose of this toxic drug is the right dose? #NeoEBM – Neonatal Research (free) AND Lower and higher oxygen saturation targets result in equal but contrasting outcomes for extremely preterm infants – 2 Minute Medicine (free)

10 – Association Between Portable Music Player Use and Hearing Loss Among Children of School Age in the Netherlands – JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Portable music players tied to hearing loss in kids – Reuters (free) AND Portable Music Player Use Linked to Hearing Loss in Children – MPR (free)

Consensus Statement: Core Competencies in Evidence-Based Practice for Health Professionals

24 Jun, 2018 | 19:29h | UTC

Core Competencies in Evidence-Based Practice for Health Professionals: Consensus Statement Based on a Systematic Review and Delphi Survey – JAMA Network Open (free)

Editorial: Interprofessional Evidence-Based Practice Competencies: Equalizing the Playing Field (free)

“68 core competencies for evidence-based practice for health professionals, developed using systematic review & Delphi consensus process” (via @hildabast see Tweet)