Daily Archives: February 7, 2019
Expert Panel Recommendations: Fluid Administration for Acute Circulatory Dysfunction Using Basic Monitoring
7 Feb, 2019 | 23:26h | UTCFluid administration for acute circulatory dysfunction using basic monitoring: narrative review and expert panel recommendations from an ESICM task force – Intensive Care Medicine (free for a limited period)
Note: if the above link is paywalled, try this one
Related Commentary on Twitter
Fluid administration for acute circulatory failure: go back to the basics, thanks to the expert panel recommendations from an ESICM task force!
Read the full text article for free at https://t.co/VPtl6cD0aN @Dr_Cit @ESICM @ClinMedJournals pic.twitter.com/pBoJiKHihT— Intens Care Med (@yourICM) February 1, 2019
2019 Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedules
7 Feb, 2019 | 23:25h | UTCRecommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedules: United States, 2019 – Pediatrics (free)
Table 1. Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule for ages 18 years or younger, United States, 2019 (free)
Table 2. Catch-up immunization schedule for persons aged 4 months–18 years who start late or who are more than 1 month behind, United States, 2019 (free)
Table 3. Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule by Medical Condition, United States, 2019 (free)
See also: CDC Immunization Schedules for Healthcare Providers (free resources) AND Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule, United States, 2019 – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)
Guideline: Best Practice Advice on Pre-hospital Emergency Anesthesia & Advanced Airway Management
7 Feb, 2019 | 23:20h | UTC
Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America
7 Feb, 2019 | 23:16h | UTCEnding the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America – U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (free)
Summary: What is ‘Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America’? – HIV.gov (free)
Related JAMA Editorial: Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for the United States (free)
Commentary: U.S. Announces Plan to Reduce New HIV Diagnoses by 90% Over Next Decade – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
Number Needed to Treat (NNT): Conveying the Likelihood of a Therapeutic Effect
7 Feb, 2019 | 23:03h | UTCGuide to Statistics and Methods: Number Needed to Treat: Conveying the Likelihood of a Therapeutic Effect – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Related: Number needed to treat (NNT) in clinical literature: an appraisal – BMC Medicine (free) AND The Numbers Needed to Treat and Harm (NNT, NNH) Statistics: What They Tell Us and What They Do Not – The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (free)
See also: The NNT Website (resource on the subject with tutorials and practical examples)
Guideline: UK CMO Recommendations on Screen Time and Social Media for Children
7 Feb, 2019 | 23:10h | UTCCommentaries: U.K. Doctors Call for Caution in Children’s Use of Screens and Social Media – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Experts respond to CMO report on screen-time and social media – Science Media Centre (free) AND Do not let children take electronic devices into bedrooms, say doctors – The Guardian (free) AND Screen time: Children advised not to use electronic devices at dinner – BBC (free)
Related Guidelines: Media devices in pre-school children: the recommendations of the Italian pediatric society – Italian Journal of Pediatrics (free) AND Media and Young Minds – Recommendations from The American Academy of Pediatrics (free)
See also: Children, Adolescents and Screens: What We Know and What We Need To Learn (Pediatrics Supplement with free articles)
Review: Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Headache Disorders in Older Adults
7 Feb, 2019 | 22:50h | UTCSource: Medscape
Global, Regional, and National Burden of Suicide Mortality
7 Feb, 2019 | 22:41h | UTCEditorial: Suicide falls by a third globally (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Global suicide mortality: Using data to inform action and monitor progress – The BMJ Opinion (free) AND Global rates of suicide death have fallen by a third since 1990, study finds – CNN (free)
Study: Education May Not Protect Against Dementia as Previously Thought
7 Feb, 2019 | 22:44h | UTCEducation and cognitive reserve in old age – Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Education may not protect against dementia as previously thought – American Academy of Neurology (free) AND Does education really protect against dementia? – Medical News Today (free) AND Education won’t help much when it comes to dementia, study says – CNN (free)
Review: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery in Gynecologic Oncology
7 Feb, 2019 | 15:19h | UTCRelated: Guidelines for pre- and intra-operative care in gynecologic/oncology surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society recommendations — Part I – Gynecologic Oncology (free) AND Guidelines for postoperative care in gynecologic/oncology surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society recommendations — Part II – Gynecologic Oncology (free) AND Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS®) in gynecologic oncology – Practical considerations for program development – Gynecologic Oncology (free)
Study: Primary Cervical Screening with High Risk HPV Testing
7 Feb, 2019 | 22:39h | UTCCommentaries: HPV cervical screening test switch ‘effective’, says pilot study – Cancer Research UK (free) AND Cervical screening intervals could be safely extended to at least five years – Pulse (free)
Related: USPSTF Statement: Screening for Cervical Cancer (free guidance and commentaries) AND Study: Little Benefit in Screening Women Aged 55 with a Negative HPV DNA test (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Randomized Trial: Cervical Cancer Screening with Cervical HPV Testing vs Cytology Testing (link to abstract and commentaries)
“The lower incidence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 or worse and cervical cancer at present screening intervals would strongly support the safety of extending the intervals to at least five years without increasing the risk of potentially life-threatening disease.”
Guidelines for the Safe Provision of Anesthesia in Magnetic Resonance Units
7 Feb, 2019 | 15:16h | UTCGuidelines for the safe provision of anaesthesia in magnetic resonance units 2019 – Anaesthesia (free)
Guidelines from the Association of Anaesthetists and the Neuro Anaesthesia and Critical Care Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Report: Gastroschisis Trends and Ecologic Link to Opioid Prescription Rates
7 Feb, 2019 | 15:12h | UTCCommentaries: CDC: What Opioid Use Has To Do With This Gut Spilling Birth Defect – Forbes (free) AND Rise in serious birth defect might be tied to opioid use, study says – CNN (free)
Study: Patterns in Outpatient Benzodiazepine Prescribing
7 Feb, 2019 | 15:13h | UTCPatterns in Outpatient Benzodiazepine Prescribing in the United States – JAMA Network Open (free)
Commentary: Steep Climb In Benzodiazepine Prescribing By Primary Care Doctors – NPR (free)
Related: A Quiet Drug Problem Among the Elderly – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) AND Benzodiazepines: our other prescription drug epidemic – STAT (free)
Consensus: Diagnosis of Peripheral Bone Infection in Adults
7 Feb, 2019 | 15:05h | UTC
No Free Lunch — What Price Plan S for Scientific Publishing?
7 Feb, 2019 | 15:00h | UTCNo Free Lunch — What Price Plan S for Scientific Publishing? – New England Journal of Medicine (free)
Related: Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand (commentaries on the subject)
Management of Frail Older People with Acute Illness
7 Feb, 2019 | 15:01h | UTCManagement of frail older people with acute illness – Internal Medicine Journal (free)
BMJ Guideline: Subacromial Decompression Surgery For Adults With Shoulder Pain Does Not Improve Outcomes
7 Feb, 2019 | 02:03h | UTCCommentaries: Expert panel strongly recommends against surgery for the most common shoulder pain – MedicalXpress (free) AND Guidelines Recommend Against Surgery for Subacromial Pain Syndrome – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
Related Systematic Reviews: Subacromial decompression surgery for adults with shoulder pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis – British Journal of Sports Medicine (free) AND Subacromial Decompression Surgery for Rotator Cuff Disease – Cochrane Library (link to study and randomized trials on the subject)
Antibiotics may be an Alternative First-line Treatment for Uncomplicated Appendicitis
7 Feb, 2019 | 14:55h | UTCAntibiotics may be an alternative first-line treatment for uncomplicated appendicitis – NIHR Signal (free)
Original Study: Randomized Trial: Antibiotic Therapy Alone Seems Reasonable for Uncomplicated Appendicitis (link to abstract, other studies, commentaries and a guideline on the subject)
Thu, February 7 – 10 Stories of The Day!
7 Feb, 2019 | 01:20h | UTC
Commentaries: Expert panel strongly recommends against surgery for the most common shoulder pain – MedicalXpress (free) AND Guidelines Recommend Against Surgery for Subacromial Pain Syndrome – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
Related Systematic Reviews: Subacromial decompression surgery for adults with shoulder pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis – British Journal of Sports Medicine (free) AND Subacromial Decompression Surgery for Rotator Cuff Disease – Cochrane Library (link to article and randomized trials on the subject)
2 – Tonsillectomy in Children (Update) – American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (free)
News Release: Tonsillectomy in children: Update to guidelines for treating and managing care (free)
Commentaries: Updated Pediatric Tonsillectomy Guidelines Stress Watchful Waiting – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND Guideline urges physicians to stop prescribing antibiotics, codeine for tonsillectomies – Healio (free registration required)
Related: British Thoracic Society Guideline for bronchiectasis in adults – Thorax (free)
4 – Alex Nowbar’s research reviews, 5 February 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.
5 – Abdominal Wall Pain: A Common Clinical Problem – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free for a limited period)
6 – Incidence, Predictors, and Outcomes of In-Hospital Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Unplanned PCI After CABG – American College of Cardiology (free)
7 – Cancer cliches to avoid: I’m not ‘brave’ – BBC (free)
Related: Why cancer is not a war, fight, or battle (free commentaries)
8 – Effect of aerobic exercise on cognition in younger adults: A randomized clinical trial – Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Exercise may improve thinking skills in people as young as 20 – American Academy of Neurology (free)
Commentaries: Undisclosed financial relationships revealed between doctors and drug companies – The Guardian (free) AND 24% of clinical guideline authors may have undisclosed ties to drug industry – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND Influential doctors aren’t disclosing their drug company ties – Croakey (free)
Related: Study: Financial Conflicts of Interest Among Authors of Clinical Guidelines (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Authors of premier medical textbook didn’t disclose $11 million in industry payments (free commentary) AND Study: Financial Conflicts of Interest Among Authors of Urology Guidelines (link to abstract) AND Perspective: Hidden Conflicts? (free) AND Study: Association of Compensation to Physicians From Industry and Self-declared Conflict of Interest (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Study: Financial Conflicts of Interest Among Oncologist Authors of Reports of Clinical Drug Trials (link to abstract and commentaries) AND “What These Medical Journals Don’t Reveal: Top Doctors’ Ties to Industry” (free commentary) AND Study: Assessment of Pharmaceutical Company and Device Manufacturer Payments to Gastroenterologists and Their Participation in Clinical Practice Guideline Panels (free)
Clinical Practice Guideline: Tonsillectomy in Children
7 Feb, 2019 | 01:09h | UTCTonsillectomy in Children (Update) – American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (free)
News Release: Tonsillectomy in children: Update to guidelines for treating and managing care (free)
Commentaries: Updated Pediatric Tonsillectomy Guidelines Stress Watchful Waiting – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND Guideline urges physicians to stop prescribing antibiotics, codeine for tonsillectomies – Healio (free registration required)
Guideline: Acute Exacerbation of Bronchiectasis (Non-cystic Fibrosis)
7 Feb, 2019 | 01:07h | UTCRelated: British Thoracic Society Guideline for bronchiectasis in adults – Thorax (free)
Abdominal Wall Pain: A Common Clinical Problem
7 Feb, 2019 | 01:01h | UTCAbdominal Wall Pain: A Common Clinical Problem – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (free for a limited period)
Alex Nowbar’s research reviews – 5 February 2019
7 Feb, 2019 | 01:04h | UTCAlex Nowbar’s research reviews, 5 February 2019 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.
Cancer Cliches to Avoid: I’m Not ‘Brave’
7 Feb, 2019 | 00:56h | UTCCancer cliches to avoid: I’m not ‘brave’ – BBC (free)
Related: Why cancer is not a war, fight, or battle (free commentaries)