Critical Care & Emergencies (all articles)

“Among patients at high risk for renal complications who were undergoing angiography, there was no benefit of intravenous sodium bicarbonate over intravenous sodium chloride or of oral acetylcysteine over placebo for the prevention of death, need for dialysis, or persistent decline in kidney function at 90 days or for the prevention of contrast-associated acute kidney injury”.

Guideline: Antiarrhythmic drugs–clinical use and clinical decision making

16 Feb, 2018 | 02:31h | UTC

Guideline: Antiarrhythmic drugs–clinical use and clinical decision making: a consensus document from EHRA, ESC, HRS, APHRS and ISCP (free)

Source: Antiarrhythmics: multinational consensus recommendations – Univadis (free registration required)

Guideline: The Open Abdomen in Trauma and Non-Trauma Patients

16 Feb, 2018 | 02:28h | UTC

The open abdomen in trauma and non-trauma patients: WSES guidelines – World Journal of Emergency Surgery (free)

Guideline: Management of Immune-Related Adverse Events in Patients Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy

16 Feb, 2018 | 02:17h | UTC

Management of Immune-Related Adverse Events in Patients Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline (free)

Commentary: New Guidelines for Treating Checkpoint Inhibitor Toxicities – Medscape (free registration required)

Relate guideline: Managing toxicities associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: consensus recommendations from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Toxicity Management Working Group (free) AND Review: New drugs, new toxicities: severe side effects of modern targeted and immunotherapy of cancer and their management – Critical Care (free)

Infographic: ATLS Trauma Update 2018

16 Feb, 2018 | 01:29h | UTC

Infographic: ATLS Trauma Update 2018 (free) (via @CritCareReviews)

Uncertain benefits of BNP blood tests to monitor heart failure treatment

16 Feb, 2018 | 01:08h | UTC

Uncertain benefits of BNP blood tests to monitor heart failure treatment – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of serum B-type natriuretic peptide testing and monitoring in patients with heart failure in primary and secondary care: an evidence synthesis, cohort study and cost-effectiveness model – Health Technology Assessment (free)

Perspective: Catheter-Directed Management in Acute Pulmonary Embolism

16 Feb, 2018 | 00:59h | UTC

Catheter-Directed Management in Acute Pulmonary Embolism – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)

Review: ED Approach to Agitation

15 Feb, 2018 | 10:44h | UTC

emDocs Cases: ED Approach to Agitation – emDocs (free)

Meta-Analysis: Prognostic Accuracy of qSOFA and SIRS criteria for Mortality in Patients With Suspected Infection

9 Feb, 2018 | 12:42h | UTC

Prognostic Accuracy of the Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment for Mortality in Patients With Suspected Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: For mortality prediction, qSOFA has poor sensitivity, moderate specificity, review finds – ACP Hospitalist (free) AND Systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria may be more sensitive than quick sequential organ failure assessment for predicting mortality in patients with suspected infection – 2 Minute Medicine (free)

Review: The Management of Multi-vessel disease (MVD) in STEMI

9 Feb, 2018 | 12:35h | UTC

Review: The Management of Multi-vessel disease (MVD) in STEMI: The Science and Art of Decision-Making in STEMI – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)

Editorial: Nutritional Management During Noninvasive Ventilation

9 Feb, 2018 | 12:13h | UTC

To eat or to breathe? The answer is both! Nutritional management during noninvasive ventilation – Critical Care (free)

Hydroxyethyl-starch Solutions (HES) Should no Longer be Used

9 Feb, 2018 | 11:47h | UTC

Hydroxyethyl-starch solutions (HES) should no longer be used in patients with sepsis or burn injuries or in critically ill patients – European Medicines Agency (free)

Press release: Hydroxyethyl-starch solutions for infusion to be suspended (free)

Source: EMA calls for hydroxyethyl starch solutions to be taken off market – The BMJ News ($)

Review: Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography in Patients with Possible Angina

9 Feb, 2018 | 11:46h | UTC

Heartbeat: Computed tomographic coronary angiography in patients with possible angina – Heart (free)

Guideline: Diagnosis and Treatment of Catheter-Related Bloodstream infection

9 Feb, 2018 | 11:45h | UTC

Diagnosis and treatment of catheter-related bloodstream infection: Clinical guidelines of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology and (SEIMC) and the Spanish Society of Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC) (free PDF)

Editorial: Animal-Assisted Intervention in the ICU

Syncope: ED Updates from the 2017 AHA/ACC/HRS Clinical Policy

Review: Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

Review: Anticoagulation in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Review: When Psychiatric Symptoms Reflect Medical Conditions

Review: A Systematic Approach to the Unconscious Patient

Review: Thrombotic Microangiopathy and the Kidney

Review: Integration of Bedside Ultrasound into the ICU

Research: Outcomes after Angiography with Sodium Bicarbonate and Acetylcysteine