General Surgery & Trauma
Guideline: Variceal Bleeding
31 Dec, 2017 | 15:35h | UTC
Review: How to Assess a Noninferiority Trial
27 Dec, 2017 | 21:46h | UTC
Report: Traumatic Coagulopathy and Massive Transfusion
26 Dec, 2017 | 19:33h | UTC
Review: Traumatic Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak
26 Dec, 2017 | 18:46h | UTCTraumatic Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak: Diagnosis and Management – Korean Journal of Neurotrauma (free)
Review: Le Fort Fractures
3 Dec, 2017 | 19:57h | UTCLe Fort Fractures: A Collective Review – Bulletin of Emergency and Trauma (free)
Review – Antithrombotics in trauma: management strategies in the older patients
3 Dec, 2017 | 17:12h | UTCAntithrombotics in trauma: management strategies in the older patients – Journal of Blood Medicine (free)
Research: Association Between Wait Time and 30-Day Mortality in Adults Undergoing Hip Fracture Surgery
30 Nov, 2017 | 18:17h | UTCAssociation Between Wait Time and 30-Day Mortality in Adults Undergoing Hip Fracture Surgery – JAMA (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Delaying Surgery for Hip Fracture for More Than One Day Associated with Small Increased Risk of Death – The JAMA Network (free) AND Delaying Hip Fracture Surgery for 1 Day Tied to Higher Mortality Risk – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Emergency Hip Surgery Best Done Within 24 Hours – Medscape (free registration required)
Review: Role for Laparoscopy in The Management of Bile Duct Injuries
30 Nov, 2017 | 17:58h | UTCRole for laparoscopy in the management of bile duct injuries – Canadian Journal of Surgery (free)
Review: Laparoscopic splenectomy
30 Nov, 2017 | 17:56h | UTCLaparoscopic splenectomy: Current concepts – World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (free)
Research: Direct medical costs of motorcycle crashes
25 Nov, 2017 | 22:36h | UTCDirect medical costs of motorcycle crashes in Ontario – Canadian Medical Association Journal (free)
Commentaries: Motorcycle crashes cause 5 times as many deaths as car accidents, 6 times the health costs – CMAJ, via EurekAlert (free) AND Motorcycle crashes are alarmingly common — and incredibly costly – STAT (free)
Review: Management of anticoagulation in hip fractures
14 Nov, 2017 | 20:36h | UTCManagement of anticoagulation in hip fractures – Effort Open Reviews (free)
Guidelines for the Management of Multiligamentous Injuries of the Knee
14 Nov, 2017 | 20:10h | UTC
European guidelines on perioperative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis
11 Nov, 2017 | 19:14h | UTCEuropean guidelines on perioperative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis (free PDF articles):
– Patients with preexisting coagulation disorders and after severe perioperative bleeding
– Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
– Surgery in the obese patient
– Surgery during pregnancy and the immediate postpartum period
– Day surgery and fast-track surgery
– Chronic treatments with antiplatelet agents
– Aspirin
Traumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research
11 Nov, 2017 | 19:06h | UTCTraumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research – The Lancet Neurology (free registration required)
Meta-analysis – Tranexamic acid: is it about time?
11 Nov, 2017 | 17:14h | UTCCommentaries: Tranexamic acid: is it about time? – The Lancet (free) Rapid use of blood drug could save thousands of lives, study finds – The Guardian (free) AND Severely bleeding patients must receive lifesaving drug within minutes, not hours – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, via EurekAlert (free)
Review: Surgical Management of Musculoskeletal Trauma
28 Oct, 2017 | 23:38h | UTCSurgical Management of Musculoskeletal Trauma – Surgical Clinics of North America (free)
Review: Recent Updates of the Diagnosis and Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with a Hip Fracture
17 Oct, 2017 | 17:58h | UTC
Systematic review: Diagnostic and therapeutic treatment modalities for acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:23h | UTC
Research: Percutaneous cholecystostomy in the management of high-risk patients presenting with acute cholecystitis
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:19h | UTCPercutaneous cholecystostomy in the management of high-risk patients presenting with acute cholecystitis: Timing and outcome at a single institution – American Journal of Surgery (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Percutaneous Cholecystostomy: An Alternative to Urgent Surgery for Cholecystitis? – Medscape (free registration required)
Research: Stair-related injuries treated in United States emergency departments
12 Oct, 2017 | 18:17h | UTCStair-related injuries treated in United States emergency departments – The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Injuries on stairs occur in all age groups and abilities – Reuters (free)
Simple preventive actions by parents linked to fewer child injuries
7 Oct, 2017 | 22:42h | UTCSimple preventive actions by parents linked to fewer child injuries – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Keeping Children Safe: a multicentre programme of research to increase the evidence base for preventing unintentional injuries in the home in the under-fives – Programme Grants for Applied Research (free)
“Children more than twice as likely to attend hospital for stair falls if safety gate not used. Home hazards studied” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)
Review – Rib Fractures: To Fix or Not to Fix? An Evidence-Based Algorithm
7 Oct, 2017 | 21:59h | UTC
Managing Head Trauma in Children
3 Oct, 2017 | 21:55h | UTCManaging Head Trauma in Children – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Related Articles: Reducing Head CT Use for Children With Head Injuries in a Community Emergency Department – Pediatrics (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND Development and Internal Validation of a Clinical Risk Score for Treating Children With Mild Head Trauma and Intracranial Injury – JAMA Pediatrics (free PDF) AND Identification of children at very low risk of clinically-important brain injuries after head trauma: a prospective cohort stud – The Lancet (free PDF)
Review – Pedestrian Struck by Vehicle: Pearls and Pitfalls of ED Management
1 Oct, 2017 | 15:12h | UTCPedestrian Struck by Vehicle: Pearls and Pitfalls of ED Management – emDocs (free)
Review: Preventing catastrophic haemorrhage in pancreatitis
30 Sep, 2017 | 13:11h | UTCPancreatitis: Preventing catastrophic haemorrhage – World Journal of Gastroenterology (free)