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How Denmark Decided COVID Isn’t a Critical Threat to Society – “The country became the first in the EU to lift all COVID restrictions despite leading the world in per capita infections”.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:48h | UTCHow Denmark Decided COVID Isn’t a Critical Threat to Society – The Atlantic
Related:
Covid: Europe set for ‘long period of tranquillity’ in pandemic, says WHO.
As Denmark scraps COVID restrictions, WHO urges caution.
Scientists admit their Covid mistakes – “Being proved wrong lies at the heart of scientific progress. Here, experts reveal what they got wrong during the pandemic”.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:46h | UTC‘The case for masks became hugely stronger’: scientists admit their Covid mistakes – The Guardian
The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:45h | UTCThe costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics – Science Advances
Commentary: Preventing pandemics costs far less than controlling them – Duke University
ERC-ESICM guidelines on temperature control after cardiac arrest in adults.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:44h | UTCERC-ESICM guidelines on temperature control after cardiac arrest in adults – Intensive Care Medicine (if the link is paywalled, try this one)
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Commentary on Twitter
Temperature control post ROSC @ERC_resus @ESICM guidelines:
🌡 monitor (core T) + prevent fever (min 72h)
❄️ insufficient evidence for/against 32-36°C or early cooling
Not recommended
🌡 active rewarming (mild hypothermia)
🚑 pre 🏥 cooling (cold fluids)https://t.co/w6X8fLInzf pic.twitter.com/U8TWG1oUyV— Intensive Care Medicine (@yourICM) January 28, 2022
A highly virulent variant of HIV-1 circulating in the Netherlands.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:42h | UTCA highly virulent variant of HIV-1 circulating in the Netherlands – Science
Commentaries:
New highly virulent and damaging HIV variant discovered in the Netherlands – University of Oxford
Highly virulent HIV variant found circulating in Europe – Nature
Guideline: Management and follow-up of gallbladder polyps – “If the patient has no risk factors for malignancy, and a gallbladder polypoid lesion of 5 mm or less, follow-up is not required”.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:39h | UTC
Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines on Anaphylaxis.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:41h | UTCRelated Guidelines:
Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Spinal Cord Protection
Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diabetes Management
Small Cell Lung Cancer, Version 2.2022, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:36h | UTC
AUA/SMSNA Guideline: Disorders of Ejaculation.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:37h | UTCDisorders of Ejaculation: An AUA/SMSNA Guideline – American Urological Association
Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) After Stroke: Meta-analysis suggests the application of a multivariable causal classification system may better distinguish patient subgroups who may benefit from PFO closure from those unlikely to receive benefit.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:31h | UTCHeterogeneity of Treatment Effects in an Analysis of Pooled Individual Patient Data From Randomized Trials of Device Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale After Stroke – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Classification System May Identify Patients Likely to Benefit from PFO Closure – Physician’s Weekly
Related:
Management of the Patient With Patent Foramen Ovale in 2021: A Spectrum of Cases
Commentary on Twitter
Analysis of individual patient data from RCTs found application of a multivariable causal classification system to randomized trial results that distinguished subgroups who may benefit from patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure vs those unlikely to benefit https://t.co/L9Ic9EsNPG
— JAMA (@JAMA_current) December 15, 2021
NCCN Guidelines Insights: Squamous Cell Skin Cancer, Version 1.2022.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:34h | UTC
Summary: 2021 CDC guidelines on sexually transmitted infections.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:33h | UTC2021 CDC guidelines on sexually transmitted infections – Family Medicine
Original Guideline: CDC releases new guidelines for the treatment of sexually transmitted infections.
Related: WHO Guidelines for the management of symptomatic sexually transmitted infections.
Cluster Randomized Trial: Personalizing psychotherapy treatment intensity (stratified care) has the potential to improve depression treatment outcomes compared to a stepped care model, in which most patients initially access only low-intensity treatments, progressing to more intensive psychotherapies as needed.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:28h | UTCAuthor Interview: Stratified Care vs Stepped Care for Depression
Therapies for Olfactory Dysfunction — an Update.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:29h | UTCTherapies for Olfactory Dysfunction — an Update – Current Allergy and Asthma Reports (if the link is paywalled, try this one)
M-A: Tranexamic acid in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage does not improve clinical outcomes or mortality.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:26h | UTCEfficacy and safety of tranexamic acid in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials – The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Review: Classification of uremic toxins and their role in kidney failure.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:23h | UTC
In a series of simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation cases, long-term data demonstrated that patient and graft survival were equivalent for conventional donation after circulatory death (DCD) vs. donation after brainstem death. The utilization of DCD pancreases may expand the donor pool with comparable results to DBD transplantation.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:24h | UTC
Perspective: Understand the real reasons reproducibility reform fails.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:26h | UTCUnderstand the real reasons reproducibility reform fails – Nature
Review: Post-transplant cardiovascular disease.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:20h | UTCPost-Transplant Cardiovascular Disease – Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Review: video-based telemedicine for kidney disease care.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:22h | UTCPatient Voice: Patient Views on Telehealth for Kidney Disease Care – Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
The kidney in normal aging: a comparison with chronic kidney disease.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:18h | UTC
Thinking outside the box: novel kidney protective strategies in kidney transplantation.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:16h | UTC
M-A: The effect of Dexmedetomidine as a sedative agent for mechanically ventilated patients with sepsis.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:15h | UTC
A cohort study including 11 US hospitals and 232 patients with Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) showed an 18% mortality rate; failure of early eradication of VRE from the bloodstream was the strongest predictor of in-hospital mortality.
7 Feb, 2022 | 08:12h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
New in OFID: In a prospective cohort with enterococcal bloodstream infections, failure to eradicate vancomycin-resistant enterococci from the bloodstream early was a major factor associated with poor outcomes.
📄 https://t.co/I4hlelW2La@PaulSaxMD @DrJLi @FungalDoc @SuperBugDoc pic.twitter.com/m10YeVjUXw
— IDSA (@IDSAInfo) January 1, 2022
RCT: Ketamine is a short-term effective treatment for some suicidal patients in hospital.
4 Feb, 2022 | 10:05h | UTCNews Release: Ketamine is a short-term effective treatment for some suicidal patients in hospital – BMJ
Original Article: Ketamine for the acute treatment of severe suicidal ideation: double blind, randomised placebo controlled trial – The BMJ
Editorial: Ketamine for suicidal ideation – The BMJ
Related:
Systematic Review: Ketamine for the treatment of mental health and substance use disorders.
Randomized trial: Repeated Ketamine administration for chronic posttraumatic stress disorder
Ketamine and Depression: A Narrative Review