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Fri, September 1 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 Sep, 2017 | 00:42h | UTC

 

1 – Public Health Guideline: Vitamin D: supplement use in specific population groups – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (free)

“Only test vitamin D status if someone has symptoms of deficiency or is at very high risk”

 

2 – Drug treatment effects on outcomes in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Heart (free)

Commentary: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Treatments Compared – MPR (free)

Source: ACP Journal Wise ($)

This study suggests a reduction in all-cause mortality with beta-blocker therapy in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. The authors recommend further trials to confirm the benefits of beta-blockers in this patient group.

 

3 – Drug-Free Interventions to Reduce Pain or Opioid Consumption After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Surgery (free)

Commentaries: Acupuncture, Electrotherapy after Knee Replacement Associated with Reduced and Delayed Opioid Use – The JAMA Network (free) AND Electrotherapy, Acupuncture Tied to Less Opioid Use After Knee Arthroscopy – Medscape (free registration required) AND Meta-Analysis: Electrotherapy, Acupuncture May Help Reduce Opioid Use After Knee Arthroplasty – Physician’s First Watch (free)

 

4 – Original articles: Cost-Effectiveness of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND Effect of Intensive Blood-Pressure Treatment on Patient-Reported Outcomes – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Analyses from SPRINT examine cost-effectiveness, patient-reported outcomes with intensive BP control – ACP Internist (free) AND Intensive BP Management Well Tolerated, Cost-effective: SPRINT – Medscape (free registration required) AND Can SPRINT Be Used To Inform Hypertension Treatment? – Cardiobrief (free)

Be sure to measure the patient’s blood pressure in the same way it was done in the SPRINT trial before adopting this study results in clinical practice (see Cardiobrief commentary)

 

5 – Natural History and Tumor Volume Kinetics of Papillary Thyroid Cancers During Active Surveillance – JAMA Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery (free for a week)

Author interview: Natural History and Tumor Volume Kinetics of Papillary Thyroid Cancers (free audio)

Commentaries: Findings Support Use of Active Surveillance for Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer – The JAMA Network (free) AND Many People Can Delay Treatment For Thyroid Cancer, Study Finds – NPR (free)

 

6 – How should we deal with non-culprit lesions during a STEMI? A mid-night conundrum – Evidently Cochrane (free)

Original article: Complete versus culprit-only revascularisation in ST elevation myocardial infarction with multi-vessel disease – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

 

7 – Preventing Teen Suicide: What Does the Evidence Shows – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Related Guideline: Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs, and Practices – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (free PDF)

 

8 – Low molecular weight heparin for prevention of venous thromboembolism in patients with lower-limb immobilization – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

“Moderate-quality evidence showed that the use of LMWH in outpatients reduced DVT when immobilization of the lower limb was required, when compared with no prophylaxis or placebo”. 

 

9 – Pembrolizumab versus ipilimumab for advanced melanoma: final overall survival results of a multicentre, randomised, open-label phase 3 study (KEYNOTE-006) – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Pembrolizumab Prolongs Overall Survival Compared With Ipilimumab in Melanoma – Cancer Therapy Advisor (free)

Source: Richard Lehman’s journal review (free)

 

10 – Impact of Obesity on Intensive Care Unit Resource Utilization After Cardiac Operations – The Annals of Thoracic Surgery (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Obese cardiac patients a drain on ICU resources – Cardiovascular Business (free) AND Obese Cardiac Surgery Patients a Burden on ICU Resources – TCTMD (free) AND Post–Cardiac Surgery ICU Usage Rises With Increasing Obesity – Medscape (free registration required)

 


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