Daily Archives: August 6, 2018
Mon, August 6 – 10 Stories of The Day!
6 Aug, 2018 | 00:05h | UTC
1 – Delirium in adult cancer patients: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines – Annals of Oncology (free)
Commentaries: Ischemic Stroke Risk Scoring May Not Be Accurate for Patients with Atrial Flutter – TCTMD (free) AND Don’t Group Afib, Atrial Flutter Together in Evaluating Stroke Risk – MedPage Today (free registration required)
3 – The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: A Rush to Judgment – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
Original Guideline: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign Bundle: 2018 update – Intensive Care Medicine (free)
Related Opinion: Petition to retire the surviving sepsis campaign guidelines – PulmCrit (free)
4 – Playing Doctor with Watson: Medical Applications Expose Current Limits of AI – Spiegel (free) (via @EricTopol)
“IBM has big plans for how its Watson artificial intelligence software could change the medical industry. But a number of hospitals have ended their experiments with the platform, arguing that it doesn’t help diagnose or treat diseases.”
5 – Bias in medical research: A glossary of common research biases – First10Em (free) (via @pash22)
Related: Catalogue of Bias – Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford (free)
6 – The Illness Is Bad Enough. The Hospital May Be Even Worse – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Related: Post-Hospital Syndrome — An Acquired, Transient Condition of Generalized Risk – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND Is Posthospital Syndrome a Result of Hospitalization-Induced Allostatic Overload? – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free) (via @hmkyale)
“The elderly are particularly vulnerable to “post-hospital syndrome,” some experts believe, and that may be why so many patients return.”
Commentaries: Heatwave deaths will rise steadily by 2080 as globe warms up – Monash University, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Heatwave deaths likely to rise steadily by 2080 without appropriate climate and health policies – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (free)
Related Lancet Editorial: Heatwaves and health (free)
Related Report: Lancet Countdown: Traking Progress on Health and Climate Change (free report, commentaries, infographics, video and other resources)
8 – Disease Outbreak News: Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo – World Health Organization (free)
Related: Conflict in new Ebola zone of DR Congo exacerbates complexity of response: WHO emergency response chief – UN News (free) AND WHO: Ebola DRC outbreak taking place in ‘war zone’ – CIDRAP (free) AND Ebola In A Conflict Zone – NPR (free) AND WHO sees complex vaccine and security questions in Ebola response – Reuters (free)
9 – Colloids versus crystalloids for fluid resuscitation in critically ill people – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Summary: Colloids or crystalloids for fluid replacement in critically people – Cochrane Library (free)
“Using starches, dextrans, albumin or FFP (moderate-certainty evidence), or gelatins (low-certainty evidence), versus crystalloids probably makes little or no difference to mortality. Starches probably slightly increase the need for blood transfusion and RRT (moderate-certainty evidence), and albumin or FFP may make little or no difference to the need for renal replacement therapy (low-certainty evidence)”.
Commentaries: Peer-delivered self-management programmes in mental health – The Lancet (free) AND After the crisis: self-management and peer-support – The Mental Elf (free) AND Peer Support Helps Reduce Mental Crisis Readmissions – MedPage Today (free registration required)