Daily Archives: October 23, 2018
Tue, October 23 – 10 Stories of The Day!
23 Oct, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC
#LIVE2018 – Highlights from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Congress (via Critical Care Reviews)
1 – #LIVE2018 – Haloperidol and Ziprasidone for Treatment of Delirium in Critical Illness – New England Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Dopamine Antagonists in ICU Delirium (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Common use of antipsychotics shown ineffective for delirium in intensive care patients – NIH News Releases (free) AND Antipsychotic Drugs Don’t Ease ICU Delirium Or Dementia – NPR (free) AND Antipsychotics ineffective for treating ICU delirium – Vanderbilt University Medical Center (free)
Related Research: Effect of Haloperidol on Survival Among Critically Ill Adults With a High Risk of Delirium (free)
2 – #LIVE2018 – Energy-Dense versus Routine Enteral Nutrition in the Critically Ill – New England Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)
Energy-dense formulation for enteral delivery of nutrition was not associated with better outcomes.
3 – #LIVE2018 – Decontamination Strategies and Bloodstream Infections With Antibiotic-Resistant Microorganisms in Ventilated Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Decontamination of Oral or Digestive Tract for Patients in the Intensive Care Unit (free for a limited period)
“Among patients receiving mechanical ventilation in ICUs with moderate to high ABX resistance prevalence, use of chlorhexidine mouthwash, selective oropharyngeal decontamination, or selective digestive tract decontamination was not associated with reductions in ICU-acquired bloodstream infections caused by MDRGNB vs standard care” (via @JAMA_current see Tweet with visual abstract)
4 – #LIVE2018 – Effect of Protocolized Weaning With Early Extubation to Noninvasive Ventilation vs Invasive Weaning on Time to Liberation From Mechanical Ventilation Among Patients With Respiratory Failure: The Breathe Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Weaning From Mechanical VentilationWhat Should Be Done When a Patient’s Spontaneous Breathing Trial Fails? (free for a limited period)
“Among patients requiring mechanical ventilation in whom a spontaneous breathing trial had failed, early extubation to noninvasive ventilation did not shorten time to liberation from any ventilation.”
5 – The Artificial Intelligence Clinician learns optimal treatment strategies for sepsis in intensive care – Nature Medicine (free link via Critical Care Reviews)
Commentaries: AI doctor could boost chance of survival for sepsis patients – Imperial College London (free) AND Artificial intelligence system could improve survival for sepsis patients – NHS National Institute for Health Research (free)
6 – Videos: Order Wisely®: Appropriate use of tests & treatments – High Value Practice Academic Alliance (free) (via @KariTikkinen)
Comprehensive educational program that reviews appropriate use of imaging exams, lab tests, medications, transfusions and procedures to promote high-value practice.
7 – Podcast: #121 HIV Care for the Internist – Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast (free audio and summary)
8 – Alex Nowbar’s research reviews—22 October 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.
9 – Want To Keep Your Brain Sharp? Take Care Of Your Eyes And Ears – NPR (free)
Related Articles: Longitudinal Relationship Between Hearing Aid Use and Cognitive Function in Older Americans – Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (free) AND Cataract surgery and age-related cognitive decline: A 13-year follow-up of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing – NPR (free)
Commentaries: Radiotherapy for newly diagnosed oligometastatic prostate cancer – The Lancet (free) AND ESMO 2018: Local radiotherapy improves survival in metastatic prostate cancer with low disease burden – eCancer News (free) AND Radiotherapy offers hopes in advanced prostate cancer – OnMedica (free) AND Cancer trial shows treating the prostate with radiotherapy improves survival – University of Birmingham (free)