Wed October 2 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia. An Official Clinical Practice Guideline of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (free)

News Release: ATS/IDSA publishes clinical guideline on community acquired pneumonia – American Thoracic Society (free)

See also: Executive Summary (free PDF)

2 – Healthy Dietary Patterns and Incidence of CKD: A Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies – Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (free)

Commentaries: A healthy diet may help prevent kidney disease – American Society of Nephrology (free) AND Healthy Diet May Prevent CKD, Albuminuria – Renal & Urology News (free) AND Patient Voice: Diet Patterns and Kidney Disease – Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (free)

3 – Special Issue: Obstetric Anaesthesia – Update in Anaesthesia (free articles)

– Homepage

– Obstetric anaesthesia in resource limited settings 

– Obstetric airway management 

– General anesthesia for elective cesarean section in resource-limited settings 

– Obstetric spinal anaesthesia 

– Management of total spinal block in obstetrics 

– Labour epidural the basics 

– Labour epidural troubleshooting 

– Establishing an epidural service for labour analgesia in a variable resource environment 

– Emergency management of maternal collapse and arrest 

– Pre-eclampsia – prevention, diagnosis and management 

– Placental pathology: a review of placenta previa, placental abruption and placenta accreta 

– Anaesthetic implications of morbid obesity in pregnancy 

– Update in obstetric trauma management 

– Update in obstetric maternal sepsis 

– Oxytocics 

– Obstetric and foetal physiology

– Newborn resuscitation

– Anaesthesia for non obstetric surgery during pregnancy

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

4 – Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis and Management: A Review – JAMA (free for a limited period)

5 – Effect of Vitamin C Infusion on Organ Failure and Biomarkers of Inflammation and Vascular Injury in Patients With Sepsis and Severe Acute Respiratory Failure: The CITRIS-ALI Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)

Editorial: Is High-Dose Vitamin C Beneficial for Patients With Sepsis? (free)

Commentary: ‘Tantalizing’ Results For A Test Of Vitamin C For Sepsis – NPR (free)

In exploratory analyses that did not adjust for multiple comparisons, 3 secondary outcomes (out of 46 examined) were significantly different between groups. At day 28, mortality was 46.3% (38/82) in the placebo group vs 29.8% (25/84) in the vitamin C group (P = .03). The number of ICU-free days to day 28 was 10.7 in the vitamin C group vs 7.7 in the placebo group (P = .03). The number of hospital-free days in the vitamin C group vs the placebo group was 22.6 vs 15.5, respectively (P = .04)

6 – Meat’s Bad for You! No, It’s Not! How Experts See Different Things in the Data – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

See also: Is eating beef healthy? The new fight raging in nutrition science, explained. – Vox (free)

Original Article: Guideline: It Is NOT Necessary to Reduce Red and Processed Meat Consumption (free guideline and commentaries)

7 – Cool Running Water First Aid Decreases Skin Grafting Requirements in Pediatric Burns: A Cohort Study of Two Thousand Four Hundred Ninety-five Children – Annals of Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Simple Cool Running Water Reduces Burn Severity in Children – Journal Feed (free)

8 – Smoking reduction interventions for smoking cessation – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Can people stop smoking by cutting down the amount they smoke first? – Cochrane Library (free)

9 – Long-term outcomes of childhood sexual abuse: an umbrella review – The Lancet Psychiatry (free)

Commentaries: Understanding and responding to the long-term burdens of childhood sexual abuse – The Lancet Psychiatry (free) AND Childhood sexual abuse linked to a range of physical and mental health conditions – University of Oxford (free)

10 – Single inhaler extrafine triple therapy in uncontrolled asthma (TRIMARAN and TRIGGER): two double-blind, parallel-group, randomised, controlled phase 3 trials – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Asthma 3-in-1 Therapy May Improve Lung Function, Study Shows – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Triple-Therapy Inhaler Tied to Better Lung Function in Asthma – NEJM Journal Watch (free)