Mon, June 25 – 10 Stories of The Day!
25 Jun, 2018 | 00:38h | UTC
1 – Diarrhoea in adult cancer patients: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines – Annals of Oncology (free)
Summary: Interventions for babies from birth to one month of life for preventing cerebral palsy: an overview of Cochrane Systematic Reviews (free)
3 – Prophylactic abdominal drainage for pancreatic surgery – Cochrane Library (free)
Summary: Drain use after pancreatic surgery – Cochrane Library (free)
See also: Highlights (free PDF) AND FAQs (free PDF) AND Infographic (free PDF)
5 – Perspective: Breathing Tubes Fail to Save Many Older Patients – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“One-third of patients over age 65 die in the hospital after they are put on ventilators. Doctors are beginning to wonder if the procedure should be used so often”.
Editorial: Interprofessional Evidence-Based Practice Competencies: Equalizing the Playing Field (free)
“68 core competencies for evidence-based practice for health professionals, developed using systematic review & Delphi consensus process” (via @hildabast see Tweet)
7 – Association of Initiation of Basal Insulin Analogs vs Neutral Protamine Hagedorn Insulin With Hypoglycemia-Related Emergency Department Visits or Hospital Admissions and With Glycemic Control in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Revisiting NPH Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes: Is a Step Back the Path Forward? (free for a limited period)
Clinical Review Audio: Health Care Spending Gone Wild: Using Expensive Insulin Analogs With Few Clinical Advantages (free)
“Long-acting insulin analogs not associated with reduced hypoglycemia-related ED visits or hospital admissions when compared with NPH insulin, despite costing 5-10x as much” (via @jsross119 see Tweet)
8 – Long-term albumin administration in decompensated cirrhosis (ANSWER): an open-label randomised trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Spotlight on albumin in cirrhosis – ACP Gastroenterology (free)
9 – Sodium bicarbonate therapy for patients with severe metabolic acidaemia in the intensive care unit (BICAR-ICU): a multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled, phase 3 trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: BICAR-ICU – The Bottom Line (free)
“This study will reassure clinicians that already use sodium bicarbonate for correcting metabolic acidaemia, that this may delay and/or reduce the requirement for RRT. Equally, for those that opt to avoid sodium bicarbonate, there is no compelling evidence to change practice” (from The Bottom Line)
Commentaries: Outcomes in Patients With Angina but Without Obstructive CAD – American College of Cardiology (free)