Tue August 6 – 10 Stories of The Day!
6 Aug, 2019 | 08:17h | UTC
2 – Perioperative Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Receiving a Direct Oral Anticoagulant – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentary: Study Sheds Light on Stopping and Resuming DOACs in Afib Patients Undergoing Surgery – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
“The DOAC regimens were omitted for 1 day before a low–bleeding-risk procedure and 2 days before a high–bleeding-risk procedure. The DOAC regimens were resumed 1 day after a low–bleeding-risk procedure and 2 to 3 days after a high–bleeding-risk procedure.”
3 – Potential Medicare Savings From Generic Substitution and Therapeutic Interchange of ACE Inhibitors and Angiotensin-II-Receptor Blockers – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)
“By maximizing generic substitution and therapeutic interchange, Medicare could have saved approximately $676 million (89.6%) in 2016 and 2017 of the total $754 million spent on these brand-name ACEIs and ARBs during those 2 years”.
4 – #164 Stroke and TIA Deconstructed – The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast (free audio)
Commentaries: Expert reaction to study reporting ‘spin’ in abstracts of psychiatry and psychology journals – Science Media Centre (free) AND ‘Spin’ found in over half of clinical trial abstracts published in top psychiatry journals – The British Medical Journal (free)
Related: Systematic Review: Spin in Published Cardiovascular Randomized Trials with Statistically Nonsignificant Primary Outcomes (free study and editorial) AND ‘Spin’ in published biomedical literature: A methodological systematic review – PLOS Biology (free)
6 – Alex Nowbar’s journal review, 5 August 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.
Commentaries: Global burden of childhood cancer: growing, but controllable – The Lancet Oncology (free) AND Globally, more than 11 million years of healthy life lost due to childhood cancer in 2017 – The Lancet (free)
Summary: Financial conflicts of interests and results, conclusions, and quality of systematic reviews – Cochrane Library (free)
10 – Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibition Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: RAS Inhibition After TAVR Gains More Support, but RCT Still Needed – TCTMD (free) AND Renin-angiotensin system inhibition following transcatheter aortic valve replacement linked with lower cardiac mortality – 2 Minute Medicine (free)