Tue August 13 – 10 Stories of The Day!
13 Aug, 2019 | 08:02h | UTC
Original Guideline: ADA 2019 Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes (free)
News Release: Evaluating blood flow is key to early diagnosis and treatment for people with critical limb ischemia – American Heart Association (free)
Commentary: AHA Outlines Diagnosis, Treatment Options for Underrecognized Critical Limb Ischemia – TCTMD (free)
3 – Adjunctive Corticosteroid Treatment in Septic Shock – Anesthesiology (free)
Related Guideline: Corticosteroid therapy for sepsis: a clinical practice guideline – The BMJ (free)
Related Meta-Analysis: Corticosteroids in Sepsis: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Critical Care Medicine (link to abstract) AND Low-dose corticosteroids for adult patients with septic shock: a systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis – Critical Care Medicine (free) AND Association of Corticosteroid Treatment With Outcomes in Adult Patients With Sepsis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
4 – #165 Things We Do For No Reason™ Part 2 – The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast (free audio and summary)
See also: Part 1: #109: Things We Do For No Reason: A High Value Episode – The Curbsiders internal Medicine Podcast (free audio and summary)
Related Series: Choosing Wisely: Things We Do For No Reason – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free articles)
“Discover common practices that persist in the hospital wards despite no proven benefit!”
5 – Risk of diabetes-associated diseases in subgroups of patients with recent-onset diabetes: a 5-year follow-up study – The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology (link to abstract and commentaries)
Commentaries: Different diabetes phenotypes associated with varying prevalence of complications – ACP Diabetes (free) AND Cluster analysis may help to predict diabetic complications – medwire News (free)
Related Study: Novel subgroups of adult-onset diabetes and their association with outcomes (link to abstract and commentaries)
6 – Long-term adverse events after sleeve gastrectomy or gastric bypass: a 7-year nationwide, observational, population-based, cohort study – The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Death Risk Drops After Bariatric Surgery in Obese Patients – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Related Research: Association of Bariatric Surgery vs Usual Care Obesity Management With All-Cause Mortality (free study and commentaries)
7 – When less is more in the active management of elevated body temperature of ICU patients – Intensive Care Medicine (free PDF)
Related: Fever control in critically ill adults. An individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials – Intensive Care Medicine (free)
8 – ‘War on cancer’ metaphors may do harm, research shows – The Guardian (free)
Related: Why cancer is not a war, fight, or battle – CNN (free) AND He’s a Fighter – The Atlantic (free) AND Cancer cliches to avoid: I’m not ‘brave’ – BBC (free)
9 – Association of Hearing Loss With Dementia – JAMA Network Open (free)
Commentary: Middle-age hearing loss linked to dementia – Reuters (free)
Related Meta-Analysis: Association of Age-Related Hearing Loss With Cognitive Function (free study and commentaries)
10 – Management of ovarian cancer risk in women with BRCA1/2 pathogenic variants – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Review Offers Guidance on Managing Ovarian Cancer Risk in BRCA Mutation Carriers – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND Managing ovarian cancer risk in women with BRCA1/2 genetic variants – Joule Inc. (free)
Related: USPSTF Draft Statement: BRCA-Related Cancer Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing (free draft statement and commentaries) AND Prevention and screening in BRCA mutation carriers and other breast/ovarian hereditary cancer syndromes: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for cancer prevention and screening (free) AND Risks of Breast, Ovarian, and Contralateral Breast Cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers (free study and commentaries)