Thu November 7 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Efficacy of a Tetravalent Dengue Vaccine in Healthy Children and Adolescents – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: A Takeda vaccine for dengue appears effective, but the story is nuanced – STAT (free) AND A new dengue vaccine shows promise — at least for now – ScienceNews (free) AND New dengue vaccine performs well in large trial, but safety remains key concern – Science (a few articles per month are free) AND Takeda’s dengue vaccine effective overall in study but with major limitation – Reuters (free)

2 – Prevention of Early Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia after Cardiac Arrest – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: Routine Antibiotics Help Ventilated Patients After Cardiac Arrest – MedPage Today (free registration required)

3 – 2019 HRS expert consensus statement on evaluation, risk stratification, and management of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: Executive summary – Heart Rhythm (free)

Full Guideline: 2019 HRS Expert Consensus Statement on Evaluation, Risk Stratification, and Management of Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy (free guideline and commentary)

4 – 2019 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Position Statement for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation – Canadian Journal of Cardiology (free)

Related Guidelines: Interdisciplinary consensus on indications for transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TF-TAVI) – Clinical Research in Cardiology (free) AND 2017 AHA/ACC Focused Update of the 2014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease (free) AND 2017 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease (free)

5 – Ten things ICU specialists need to know about new valvular procedures in interventional cardiology – Intensive Care Medicine (free)

6 – Vasopressor therapy in critically ill patients with shock – Intensive Care Medicine (free)

Related: Editorial: Focus on Blood Pressure Targets and Vasopressors in Critically Ill Patients (free editorial and reviews)

7 – 150 years of Nature – A Century and a Half of Research and Discovery (free resources)

Video (interesting): A network of science: 150 years of Nature papers (free)

8 – Association between gifts from pharmaceutical companies to French general practitioners and their drug prescribing patterns in 2016: retrospective study using the French Transparency in Healthcare and National Health Data System databases – The BMJ (free)

9 – Association of contrast and acute kidney injury in the critically ill: A propensity matched study – CHEST (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentary: No association between contrast use and AKI seen in critically ill patients with normal kidney function – ACP Hospitalist (free)

Related: Does contrast cause kidney injury? The evidence – First10EM (free) AND Are the Risks Of Drugs That Enhance Imaging Tests Overblown? – NPR (free) AND Acute Kidney Injury After Computed Tomography: A Meta-analysis – Annals of Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND Risk of Acute Kidney Injury After Intravenous Contrast Media Administration – Annals of Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND

10 – Associations Between Screen-Based Media Use and Brain White Matter Integrity in Preschool-Aged Children – JAMA Pediatrics (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Expert reaction to study on screen use and white brain matter in children – Science Media Centre (free) AND Preschoolers’ Screen Time Tied to Brain Structure Irregularities – MedPage Today (free registration required)

Related: Meta-Analysis: Association Between Screen Media Use and Academic Performance Among Children and Adolescents (link to abstract and commentaries)