Wed November 6 – 10 Stories of The Day! | Content Curation & Alerts in Medicine

1 – Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment and Prevention of Drowning: 2019 Update – Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (free)

2 – Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Acute Altitude Illness: 2019 Update – Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (free)

Related: Interventions for treating acute high altitude illness – Cochrane Library (free) AND Interventions for preventing high altitude illness: Part 1. Commonly‐used classes of drugs – Cochrane Library (free) AND Interventions for preventing high altitude illness: Part 2. Less commonly‐used drugs – Cochrane Library (free) AND Interventions for preventing high altitude illness: Part 3. Miscellaneous and non‐pharmacological interventions – Cochrane Library (free) AND Acute high-altitude sickness – European Respiratory Review (free) AND High-altitude illness: Management approach – Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine (free)

3 – Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Heat Illness: 2019 Update – Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (free)

4 – Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Water Disinfection for Wilderness, International Travel, and Austere Situations – Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (free)

5 – Benefits and harms of intensive glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes – The BMJ (free for a limited period)

6 – Internet based vestibular rehabilitation with and without physiotherapy support for adults aged 50 and older with a chronic vestibular syndrome in general practice: three armed randomised controlled trial – The BMJ (free)

Commentaries: Treat dizziness and vertigo with vestibular rehabilitation – The BMJ Opinion (free) AND Online Intervention Could Help Those with Chronic Vestibular Syndrome – NEJM Journal Watch (free)

Related Study: Internet-Based Vestibular Rehabilitation for Older Adults With Chronic Dizziness (free study and commentaries)

7 – Incidence of Bloodstream Infections, Length of Hospital Stay, and Survival in Patients With Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection Treated With Fecal Microbiota Transplantation or Antibiotics: A Prospective Cohort Study – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Study: Fecal Transplants Cut Sepsis Risk in Patients With C. Diff – MedPage Today (free registration required)

Related: Clostridioides Difficile: Diagnosis and Treatments (free guidelines and reviews)

8 – Early Palliative Care Consultation in the Medical ICU: A Cluster Randomized Crossover Trial – Critical Care Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Source: EvidenceAlerts

9 – Short-Term Impact of a Flavored Tobacco Restriction: Changes in Youth Tobacco Use in a Massachusetts Community – American Journal of Preventive Medicine (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Restricting flavored tobacco could curb youth use – Reuters (free) AND A tale of two cities: Impact of reducing teens’ access to flavored tobacco products – Elsevier (free) AND One town’s flavor ban seemed to work to cut youth tobacco use – CNN (free)

Related Opinion: Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes to Protect Our Children (free commentaries)

10 – Mind-Body Therapies for Opioid-Treated Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Internal Medicine (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: Study highlights role of mind-body therapies in addressing opioid-treated pain – News Medical (free) AND Meditation, Mindfulness Hold Promise for Pain Treatment, Curbing Opioid Use – U.S. News (free)

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