Tue, May 29 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

See also: NEJM Tweet with visual abstract

“There is something very disturbing about a trial with HR=0.76, 95% CI 0.55-1.04 for the primary endpoint being stopped early for futility”. This TWEETORIAL by @ADAlthousePhD is a huge help in interpreting the results of this important trial (see more on the rise of “Tweetorial” here).

2 – Review: Supplemental Vitamins and Minerals for CVD Prevention and Treatment – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Most vitamin, mineral supplements not shown to lower heart disease risk – American College of Cardiology, via ScienceDaily (free) AND Aside From Folate, Vitamins Appear Largely Ineffective For Prevention, Study Finds – Forbes (free) AND Most popular vitamin and mineral supplements provide no health benefit, study finds – St. Michael’s Hospital, via EurekAlert (free)

3 – Perspective: Incidental anarchy – The BMJ Opinion (free)

“Giles Maskell writes on over diagnosis and underdiagnosis, the complexities of incidental findings and urges clinicians to “Think before you scan because you can” (via @bmj_latest see Tweet)

4 – Review: Management of cardiogenic shock complicating myocardial infarction – Intensive Care Medicine (free for a limited period)

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

5 – Advanced heart failure: a position statement of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology – European Journal of Heart Failure (free PDF)

6 – Women’s Health Policy in the United States: An American College of Physicians Position Paper – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)

Commentary: U.S. doctors call for health policies that support women – Reuters (free)

7 – Concomitant fibromyalgia complicating chronic inflammatory arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Rheumatology (free)

Commentary: Comorbid fibromyalgia common in patients with inflammatory arthritis – MedwireNews (free)

8 – How common is alcohol and drug dependency across the world? – Our World in Data (free)

9 – Online Atlas: The 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals – The World Bank (free)

Download PDF: The 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals – The World Bank (free)

News Release: The 2018 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: an all-new visual guide to data and development (free)

10 – World Health Organization-World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WHO-WFSA) International Standards for a Safe Practice of Anesthesia – Canadian Journal of Anesthesia (free)

Commentaries: International anesthesia standards updated with WHO in global effort to improve surgical care – World Health Organization-World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, via EurekAlert (free)