Tue June 25 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – WHO consolidated guideline on self-care interventions for health: sexual and reproductive health and rights – World Health Organization (free PDF)

News release: Expanding access to health services with self-care interventions – World Health Organization (free)

Related BMJ Supplement: Self care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights (free articles)

2 – Alcohol Use by Youth – Pediatrics (free)

Technical Report: Alcohol Use by Youth – Pediatrics (free)

News Release: American Academy of Pediatrics Emphasizes Dangers of Alcohol to Children, Teens and Young Adults – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)

3 – Anticholinergic Drug Exposure and the Risk of Dementia: A Nested Case-Control Study – JAMA Internal Medicine (free)

Commentaries: Preventing Alzheimer Disease by Deprescribing Anticholinergic Medications – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period) AND Commonly prescribed anticholinergic drugs linked to dementia risk – UPI (free) AND Expert reaction to anticholinergic drug exposure and risk of dementia – Science Media Centre (free) Commonly prescribed drugs are tied to nearly 50% higher dementia risk in older adults, study says – CNN (free)

4 – Coagulation Testing in Patients Taking Direct Oral Anticoagulants: A Teachable Moment – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

5 – Natural History of Adrenal Incidentalomas With and Without Mild Autonomous Cortisol Excess: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Incidentally discovered adrenal tumors rarely grow or affect hormonal function, review finds – ACP Internist (free) AND Healthcare guidelines should be updated for patients with certain adrenal tumors – University of Birmingham (free) 

Related Guideline: Management of adrenal incidentalomas: European Society of Endocrinology Clinical Practice Guideline in collaboration with the European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumors – European Journal of Endocrinology (free)

6 – Physiology and Pathophysiology of Potassium Homeostasis: Core Curriculum 2019 – American Journal of Kidney Diseases (free)

7 – A systematic review of infectious illness Presenteeism: prevalence, reasons and risk factors – BMC Public Health (free)

Related Study: Working with influenza-like illness: Presenteeism among US health care personnel during the 2014-2015 influenza season – American Journal of Infection Control (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND Commentaries: This flu season, physicians need to scrap the ‘martyr culture’ of working while sick – STAT (free) AND Healthcare Providers Shouldn’t Come to Work While Sick, but They Do — Here’s Why – HIV and ID Observations, Journal Watch Blog (free)

Infectious illness presenteeism (working while sick) prevalence ranged from 35 to 97%.

8 – Heart failure and sepsis: practical recommendations for the optimal management – Heart Failure Reviews (free)

9 – Expiratory muscle dysfunction in critically ill patients: towards improved understanding – Intensive Care Medicine (free)

10 – The geriatric patient: special aspects of peri-operative management – Effort Open Reviews (free)

Related: Optimal Perioperative Management of the Geriatric Patient: A Best Practices Guideline from the American College of Surgeons NSQIP and the American Geriatrics Society (free) AND The Perioperative Care of Older Patients: Time for a New, Interdisciplinary Approach – Deutsches Ärzteblatt international (free) AND Peri‐operative optimisation of elderly and frail patients: a narrative review – Anaesthesia (free) AND Surgical Guidelines for Perioperative Management of Older Adults: What Geriatricians Need to Know – Journal of The American Geriatrics Society (free) AND Peri-operative care of the elderly 2014: Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (free)