Mon, June 18 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – British Thoracic Society Guideline for the initial outpatient management of pulmonary embolism (PE) – Thorax (free)

2 – Benefits and harms of screening men for abdominal aortic aneurysm in Sweden: a registry-based cohort study – The Lancet (free to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Screening Programs for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Need a Rethink, Swedish Study Contends – TCTMD (free) AND Screening for aortic aneurysms in older men questioned – University of Gothemburg, via EurekAlert (free) AND Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Questioned – NEJM Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Routine Aortic Aneurysm Screening Questioned – MedPage Today (free registration required)

3 – Clinical Trial of Fluid Infusion Rates for Pediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Quick Take Video Summary: Does Infusion Rate Affect Neurologic Outcomes in Pediatric DKA? (free)

Commentaries: PEM Practice Changing Paper: Clinical Trial of Fluid Infusion Rates for Pediatric DKA – Aliem (free) AND The Rate of Resuscitation in Pediatric DKA – Emergency Medicine Literature of Note (free) AND Infusion Type Doesn’t Affect Brain Outcomes in Pediatric DKA – Medscape (free)

4 – Expert Analysis: ACS Management in a Patient in Need of Noncardiac Surgery – American College of Cardiology (free)

5 – Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography Versus Stress Echocardiography in Acute Chest Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial – JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: The Patient Presenting With Chest Pain: Stress Echo Gives Coronary CTA a Run for Its Money – TCTMD (free)

6 – Practice guideline update summary: Efficacy and tolerability of the new antiepileptic drugs – American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society

Part I: Treatment of new-onset epilepsy (free PDF)

Part II: Treatment-resistant epilepsy (free PDF)

Commentary: New Epilepsy Guidelines Shed Light on Explosion of New Drugs – MedPage Today (free registration required)

7 – Palliative Care in the Global Setting: ASCO Resource-Stratified Practice Guideline – Journal of Global Oncology (free)

Commentary: ASCO Guideline Addresses Palliative Care in the Global Setting – ASCO Daily News (free)

8 – Age-attuned Hospice care: An opportunity to better end of life care for older people – StCristopher’s (free PDF) (via @hospicedoctor see tweet)

“Despite the evidence that more people will die of frailty and multiple long-term conditions than of cancer, our services for those moving towards the end of their life remain focussed on the needs of the latter group”

9 – Caring for the caregiver: A guide for physicians – American Medical Association (free PDF)

Commentary: AMA Releases New Physician Guide on Caring for the Caregiver – The ASCO Post (free)

10 – Association of Perioperative Red Blood Cell Transfusions With Venous Thromboembolism in a North American Registry – JAMA Surgery (free for a limited period)

Commentary: Peri-Op RBC Transfusions Linked to Postoperative VTE – MPR (free) AND Risk for Clot Increases After Surgery With Transfusion – Medscape (free registration required) AND Post-Op VTE Risk Up After Intra-Op Blood Transfusion – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND VTE Risk Higher in Surgical Patients Who Get Transfusions – TCTMD (free)