Wed May 22 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Mucolytic agents versus placebo for chronic bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Mucolytic agents for chronic bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – Cochrane Library (free)

2 – Galactomannan detection in broncho‐alveolar lavage fluid for invasive aspergillosis in immunocompromised patients – Cochrane Library (free)

Summary: Measuring galactomannan in lung-washing fluid to diagnose invasive aspergillosis in patients with an impaired immune system – Cochrane Library (free)

3 – A Contrarian View of Digital Health – Quillette (free)

4 – 2019 HRS/EHRA/APHRS/LAHRS focused update to 2015 expert consensus statement on optimal implantable cardioverter-defibrillator programming and testing – EP Europace (free)

5 – Update in Surveillance Recommendations in Individuals with Conventional Adenomas – Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology (free)

6 – Current concepts in acute liver failure – Annals of Hepatology (free)

7 – What’s new in oxygen therapy? – Intensive Care Medicine (free)

Related: Guideline: Oxygen Therapy for Acutely Ill Medical Patients (free) AND Review: Oxygen Treatment in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (free) AND Meta-Analysis: Liberal vs Conservative Oxygen Therapy in Acutely ill Adults (link to abstract and commentary)

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

8 – Eight things we would never do regarding end-of-life care in the ICU – Intensive Care Medicine (free)

Related: Limitation of Life-Sustaining Care in the Critically Ill: A Systematic Review of the Literature – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free PDF) AND Dying with Dignity in the Intensive Care Unit – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND Palliative care in intensive care units: why, where, what, who, when, how – BMC Anesthesiology (free) AND Ten key points about ICU palliative care – Intensive Care Medicine (free) AND Guidelines for the withdrawal of life-sustaining measures – Intensive Care Medicine (free) AND End-of-life in the ICU: moving from ‘withdrawal of care’ to a palliative care, patient-centred approach – British Journal of Anaesthesia (free) AND New concepts in palliative care in the intensive care unit – Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva (free) AND The Changing Role of Palliative Care in the ICU – Critical Care Medicine (free)

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

9 – Infant Deaths in Sitting Devices – Pediatrics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

News Release: Large study sheds light infant deaths in sitting devices – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)

Commentaries: Car seat danger: Babies shouldn’t sleep in car seats when not traveling – Today (free) AND Sleep-Related Car Seat Deaths Occur Most Often Outside of Travel – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

10 – Trends in Suicide Among Youth Aged 10 to 19 Years in the United States, 1975 to 2016 – JAMA Network Open (free)

Commentaries: Increasing Suicide Rates in Early Adolescent Girls in the United States and the Equalization of Sex Disparity in Suicide: The Need to Investigate the Role of Social Media – JAMA Network Open (free) AND Suicide Rate For Girls Has Been Rising Faster Than For Boys, Study Finds – NPR (free) AND Suicide rates in girls are rising, study finds, especially in those age 10 to 14 – CNN (free)