Thu, March 22 – 10 Stories of The Day!
22 Mar, 2018 | 02:12h | UTC
1 – Low Back Pain – New Series from The Lancet Journals
– Homepage and Executive Summary (free)
– Article 1: What low back pain is and why we need to pay attention (free registration required)
– Article 2: Prevention and treatment of low back pain: evidence, challenges, and promising directions (free registration required)
– Invited Commentary: Low back pain: a major global challenge (free registration required)
– Viewpoint: Low back pain: a call for action (free registration required)
Commentaries: Low Back Pain Affects 540 Million People Worldwide, but Too Many Patients Receive the Wrong Care – University of Warwick, via NewsWise (free) AND Lower back pain being treated badly on a global scale, study says – The Guardian (free)
Commentaries: Limiting shifts for medical trainees affects satisfaction, but not educational outcomes – MedicalXpress (free) AND Controversial Duty-Hours Trial Finds Difference in Intern Education – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Limiting hours of resident shifts improves satisfaction—but not educational outcomes – Clinical Inovation + Technology (free)
3 – Helicobacter pylori Therapy for the Prevention of Metachronous Gastric Cancer – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Quick Take Video Summary: H. pylori Treatment for Gastric Cancer Prevention (free)
Commentary: H pylori Eradication Benefits Patients With Early Gastric Cancer – Medscape (free registration required)
Commentaries: Localized Risk for Infection Transmission on Planes, Study Finds – Medscape (free registration required) AND Researchers Determine Routes of Respiratory Infectious Disease Transmission on Aircraft – Georgia Tech News Center (free) AND Why you should choose your plane seat wisely – Medical News Today (free)
“Direct disease transmission outside of the one-meter area of an infected passenger is unlikely” (from Georgia Tech)
5 – Selected Articles from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2018 – BMC (free) (via @CritCareReviews)
Related: AAFP Decides to Not Endorse AHA/ACC Hypertension Guideline (free) AND ACC/AHA Hypertension Guideline: What Is New? What Do We Do? – American Family Physician (free) AND Hemoglobin A1c Targets for Glycemic Control With Pharmacologic Therapy for Nonpregnant Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Guidance Statement Update From the American College of Physicians (free)
Invited commentary: Mortality in older children and adolescents: the forgotten ones (free)
Graphic 1: Top 25 causes of death in the WHO European Region, age 5–9 years, both sexes, 1990 and 2016 (free)
Graphic 2: Top 25 causes of death in the WHO European Region, age 10–14 years, both sexes, 1990 and 2016 (free)
8 – Time to Epinephrine Administration and Survival from Non-Shockable Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Among Children and Adults – Circulation (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Every Minute Counts with Epinephrine in Nonshockable Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest – NEJM Journal Watch (free)
Commentaries: Maternal anaemia and risk of mortality: a call for action – The Lancet Global Health (free) AND Risk of maternal death doubled in pregnant women with anemia – MedicalXpress (free)
Invited commentary: Preventing stroke on the street where you live, work, and play (free)
Patients from the lowest socioeconomic groups had first stroke a median of 7 years earlier than those from the highest and a 26% higher adjusted risk of 1-year mortality.