Tue, July 10 – 10 Stories of The Day!
10 Jul, 2018 | 00:01h | UTC
Editorial: Treating nosocomial pneumonia: what’s new (free)
Related Guidelines: International ERS/ESICM/ESCMID/ALAT guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia (free) AND Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
2 – Guideline: Recommendations on screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy – Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (free)
See also: Summary of recommendations for clinicians and policy-makers / other resources from CTFPHC (all free)
3 – Draft Statement: Antibiotics should be restricted for COPD – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)
Commentaries: Antibiotics should be restricted for COPD, says NICE – OnMedica (free) AND UK officials recommend limits on antibiotics for COPD – CIDRAP (free)
“The draft antimicrobial guidance recommends that antibiotics should be offered to people who have a severe flare up of symptoms, also known as a severe acute exacerbation”
4 – Oposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution by U.S. Stuns World Health Officials – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
5 – Richard Lehman’s journal review, 9 July 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Richard Lehman reviews the latest research in the top medical journals
6 – Cabozantinib in Patients with Advanced and Progressing Hepatocellular Carcinoma – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Cabozantinib in Hepatocellular Carcinoma – NEJM Resident 360 (free)
Median overall survival was 10.2 months with cabozantinib and 8.0 months with placebo, but the rate of high-grade adverse events in the cabozantinib group was approximately twice that observed in the placebo group. (more on this study in Richard Leeman’s review above)
Original study: Percutaneous coronary intervention in stable angina (ORBITA) (link to abstract and commentaries)
Related commentaries: Viewpoint: Placebo Effect of the Heart (free) AND Sham Surgeries: A Tale of Medical Reversals & the Role of the Media (free)
Related research: Research: Physiology-Stratified Analysis of ORBITA (free research and commentaries)
8 – Richard Smith: Reducing global road traffic crashes and injuries – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Related reports: The High Toll of Traffic Injuries : Unacceptable and Preventable – The World Bank (free PDF) AND Save LIVES: a road safety technical package (free) AND Unfinished Journey: The Global Health Response to Children & Road Traffic – FIA Foundation (free PDF) AND Securing safe roads: the politics of change – World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities (free news release and PDF)
9 – Negative pressure wound therapy for open traumatic wounds – Cochrane Library (free)
Summary: Negative pressure wound therapy for open traumatic wounds – Cochrane Library (free)
Related Research: Randomized Trial: Negative Pressure Wound Therapy No Better Than Regular Dressing in Severe Open Fracture of the Lower Limb (link to abstract and commentaries)
10 – Physician Burnout, Well-being, and Work Unit Safety Grades in Relationship to Reported Medical Errors – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Medical errors may stem more from physician burnout than unsafe health care settings – Stanford Medicine, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Physician burnout, depression can lead to major medical errors: Study – ABC News (free) AND Burnout Tied to Twofold Higher Risk for Medical Errors – Medscape (free registration required)
Related: Perspective: The Burnout Crisis in American Medicine (free commentaries on the subject)