Mon, March 18 – 10 Stories of The Day!
18 Mar, 2019 | 00:17h | UTC
Guideline Hub: Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (free resources)
Executive Summary: 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (free PDF)
Guidelines Made Simple: A Selection of Tables and Figures (free PDF)
Summary with Key Points to Remember: 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease – American College of Cardiology (free)
2 – Effect of Catheter Ablation vs Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy on Mortality, Stroke, Bleeding, and Cardiac Arrest Among Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: The CABANA Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Related Study: Effect of Catheter Ablation vs Medical Therapy on Quality of Life Among Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: The CABANA Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Video Summary: Catheter Ablation vs Drug Therapy for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: The CABANA Trial (free)
Editorial: Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Lessons Learned From CABANA (free for a limited period)
Commentary: Surgery no better than medication at preventing serious complications of atrial fibrillation – NIH News Releases (free)
3 – Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement with a Self-Expanding Valve in Low-Risk Patients – New England Journal of Medicine (free for a limited period)
Commentary: In study, TAVR is superior to surgery for low-risk patients with aortic valve stenosis – Columbia University Irving Medical Center (free)
“”The main limitation of the study is that the current results reflect outcomes after one year, which isn’t long enough to assess the long-term durability of the replacement valve,” said Leon. “Patients in the study will be followed for at least 10 years so that we can measure their long-term outcomes and inform the medical community.” (from Columbia University)
See also: Beware the hype over the Apple Watch heart app. The device could do more harm than good – STAT (free) AND Apple Watch may spot heart problem but more research needed – Associated Press (free) AND Apple Watch May Detect A-fib in the General Population, but at What Cost? – TCTMD (free)
Related: Editorial: Downsides of Detecting Atrial Fibrillation in Asymptomatic Patients (free) AND USPSTF Statement: Screening with Resting or Exercise Electrocardiography (ECG) Not Recommended (free Guideline and commentaries) AND Wearable technology to screen for atrial fibrillation: does it raise more questions than it answers? (free commentaries) AND Get Ready For A Tsunami Of ECGs (free commentaries)
Commentaries: Evaluate Troponin Results Carefully, Researchers Warn – NEJM Journal Watch (free) AND Blood test to diagnose heart attacks is flawed, warn researchers – The BMJ (free) AND CHARIOT: 1 in 20 Hospitalized Patients Undergoing Blood Tests Have Elevated Troponin – TCTMD (free)
Related: Randomized Trial: High-Sensitivity Troponin in the Evaluation of Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (free study and commentaries) AND Cohort Study: The Introduction of High-sensitive Troponins Had No Impact on Survival (free study and commentaries)
6 – Patient Blood Management Recommendations From the 2018 Frankfurt Consensus Conference – JAMA (free for a limited period)
7 – Review: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – Nature Reviews Disease Primer (free PDF)
8 – Associations of Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption With Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Commentaries: Are Eggs Good Or Bad? How You Should Interpret This Latest Study – Forbes (free) AND Are eggs good or bad for you? New research rekindles the debate – STAT (free) AND Eggs are bad – then good – then bad again? What gives? – Diet Doctor (free)
9 – An environmental cleaning bundle and health-care-associated infections in hospitals (REACH): a multicentre, randomised trial – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Hospital cleaning trial cuts infections – Queensland University of Technology (free)
10 – Chlorhexidine versus routine bathing to prevent multidrug-resistant organisms and all-cause bloodstream infections in general medical and surgical units (ABATE Infection trial): a cluster-randomised trial – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Results of Trial to Stem Hospital-Acquired Bacterial Infections Published – NIAID (free) Quick Take: Chlorhexidine Versus Routine Bathing to Prevent Multidrug-Resistant Organisms and All-Cause Bloodstream Infections in General Medical and Surgical Units (ABATE Infection Trial) – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Infection control technique may reduce infections in patients with catheters, drains – Rush University Medical Center (free)
“Decolonisation with universal chlorhexidine bathing and targeted mupirocin for MRSA carriers did not significantly reduce multidrug-resistant organisms in non-critical-care patients.”