Daily Archives: March 14, 2018
Wed, March 14 – 10 Stories of The Day!
14 Mar, 2018 | 00:22h | UTC
Related guideline: 2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Guideline for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association (free PDF) AND Summary for ED-relevant care: 2018 AHA/ASA Ischemic Stroke Updates – emDocs (free)
“In routine clinical practice, endovascular treatment for patients with acute ischemic stroke is at least as effective and safe as in the setting of a randomized controlled trial”.
2 – Editorial: Dialysis Modality Survival Comparison: Time to End the Debate, It’s a Tie – American Journal of Kidney Diseases (free)
Related commentary: PD or HD: Which Road Do We Take? – AJKD Blog (free)
Original article: Comparison of Patient Survival Between Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis Among Patients Eligible for Both Modalities – American Journal of Kidney Diseases (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Source: Hemodialysis vs. Peritoneal Dialysis for End-Stage Renal Disease – NEJM Journal Watch ($)
Commentaries: Lead and the heart: an ancient metal’s contribution to modern disease – The Lancet Public Health (free) AND Lead exposure may be linked to 412,000 premature US deaths yearly, study says – The Guardian (free) AND Lead and CDV deaths in US adults – Science Media Centre (free) AND Expert reaction to lead and CVD deaths in the US – Science Media Centre (free)
4 – Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries – JAMA (free article, editorials, author interview and video summary)
Commentaries: Why Is U.S. Health Care So Expensive? Some of the Reasons You’ve Heard Turn Out to Be Myths – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Huge cost of US healthcare driven by drug prices and salaries – The Guardian (free) AND Healthcare: It’s The Prices, Stupid. Isn’t It? – Forbes (free) AND Physician Salaries, Drug Prices Drive High US Health Costs – Medscape (free registration required)
Commentaries: New analysis recommends against using digital rectal exam in primary care – American Academy of Family Physicians, vie EurekAlert (free) AND Little Evidence Supports Use of Digital Rectal Exam – Medscape (free registration required) AND Digital Rectal Exams for Routine Prostate Screening Discouraged – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free)
See original article and commentaries in our March 12th issue (see #2)
8 – Effects of stress on the development and progression of cardiovascular disease – Nature Reviews Cardiology (free PDF for a limited period) (via @Abraham_RMI)
10 – The 2017 ESC Guidelines on PADs: what’s new? – European Heart Journal (free) AND The ‘Ten Commandments’ of 2017 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases – European Heart Journal (free)
Original Guideline: 2017 ESC Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Arterial Diseases, in collaboration with the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) (free)