Tue September 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – World Health Organization Campaign on World Patient Safety Day (free resources)

News Release: WHO calls for urgent action to reduce patient harm in healthcare (free)

See also: Patient Safety Fact Sheet (free) 10 facts on patient safety (free) AND The Lancet Editorial: Patient safety: too little, but not too late (free)

2 – Diagnosis and Management Pneumonia in Adults – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

Related NICE Guidelines: Pneumonia (community-acquired): antimicrobial prescribing (free) AND Pneumonia (hospital-acquired): antimicrobial prescribing (free)

See also: NICE Antimicrobial prescribing guidelines (resource covering many common conditions) AND NICE Summary of antimicrobial prescribing guidance – managing common infections (free PDF)

3 – Risk of rhabdomyolysis with donepezil compared with rivastigmine or galantamine: a population-based cohort study – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free)

Commentaries: Commonly used drug for Alzheimer’s disease doubles risk of hospitalization – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free) Study: Common Alzheimer’s disease drug doubles hospitalization risk – UPI (free) AND Rhabdomyolysis risk with donepezil double that of other AD meds – OnMedica (free)

4 – Viewpoint: “It’s All in Your Head”—Medicine’s Silent Epidemic – JAMA Neurology (free for a limited period)

5 – Ketamine and depression: a narrative review – Drug Design, Development and Therapy (free)

Related: Ketamine and other glutamate receptor modulators for depression in adults – Cochrane Library (free)

6 – Understanding tumor lysis syndrome – Intensive Care Medicine (free for a limited period)

7 – Less is more: catecholamine-sparing strategies in septic shock – Intensive Care Medicine (free for a limited period)

8 – Associations between paracetamol (acetaminophen) intake between 18 and 32 weeks gestation and neurocognitive outcomes in the child: A longitudinal cohort study – Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology (free)

Commentaries: Taking paracetamol during pregnancy may affect the child’s behaviour in early years – The Conversation (free) AND Expert reaction to study looking at paracetamol in pregnancy and behaviour, memory and IQ in children – Science Media Centre (free) AND Paracetamol in pregnancy linked to behaviour problems in children – OnMedica (free)

Related: Meta-Analysis: Prenatal Exposure to Acetaminophen and Risk for ADHD and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (free)

9 – Review of current evidence and clinical recommendations on the effects of low-carbohydrate and very-low-carbohydrate (including ketogenic) diets for the management of body weight and other cardiometabolic risk factors: A scientific statement from the National Lipid Association Nutrition and Lifestyle Task Force – Journal of Clinical Lipidology (free)

10 – Lower carbohydrate diets and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a population-based cohort study and pooling of prospective studies – European Heart Journal (free)

Commentary: Lower Carbohydrate Diets, All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality – American College of Cardiology (free)