Mon, July 17 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – The management of intra-abdominal infections from a global perspective: 2017 WSES guidelines – World Journal of Emergency Surgery (free)

Related guideline: The Surgical Infection Society Revised Guidelines on the Management of Intra-Abdominal Infection – Surgical Infections (free)

2 – Constipation in children and young people: diagnosis and management – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guideline (free)

3 – High-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy is superior to conventional oxygen therapy but not to noninvasive mechanical ventilation on intubation rate: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Critical Care (free)

Source: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club (free resource to find articles of interest)

4 – Systematic review: Antiepileptic drug monotherapy (single drug treatment) for epilepsy – Cochrane Library (free)

Original article: Antiepileptic drug monotherapy for epilepsy: a network meta-analysis of individual participant data (link to summary – $ for full-text)

5 – Studies suggest apneic oxygenation reduces hypoxemia during emergency intubation:

Meta-analysis 1: Apneic oxygenation during intubation in the emergency department and during retrieval: A systematic review and meta-analysis – The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Meta-analysis 2: Apneic oxygenation reduces the incidence of hypoxemia during emergency intubation: A systematic review and meta-analysis – The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full text)

Source: Apneic Oxygenation Prevents Desaturation During Intubation – Journal Watch ($ resource to find articles of interest)

6 – Risk of post-pregnancy hypertension in women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: nationwide cohort study – The BMJ (free)

Related article: Lifestyle in progression from hypertensive disorders of pregnancy to chronic hypertension in Nurses’ Health Study II: observational cohort study – The BMJ (free)

Editorial: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy – The BMJ (free)

Commentaries: Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Tied to Increased Hypertension Risk Decades Later – Physician’s First Watch (free)

7 – How to spot a misleading graph, by Lea Gaslowitz – TED Talks (free YouTube video)

“How to spot a misleading graph – Great video by Lea Gaslowitz @TEDTalks” (RT @CochraneUK see Tweet)

8 – Opinion: Physicians need to openly discuss medical mistakes and near misses – STAT News (free) (RT @statnews see Tweet)

9 – “Pathologists debating their future in the era of #AI” (RT @EricTopol see Tweet)

Editorial 1: AlphaGo, Deep Learning, and the Future of the Human Microscopist – Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (free)

Editorial 2: Artificial Intelligence and the Pathologist: Future Frenemies? – Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (free)

See more on the impact of artificial intelligence in healthcare in our June 14th issue (see #2 and #3)

10 – A must read perspective on “Machine Learning and Prediction in Medicine — Beyond the Peak of Inflated Expectations” – Cross Invalidation (free) (RT @pash22 see Tweet)