Wed, September 20 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Corticosteroids in patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia: systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis – Clinical Infectious Diseases (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Related Meta-analysis: Efficacy and Safety of Adjunctive Corticosteroids Therapy for Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – PLOS One (free) AND Efficacy and Safety of Corticosteroids for Community-Acquired Pneumonia – Chest (free) AND Adjunctive Systemic Corticosteroids for Hospitalized Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 2015 Update – Scientific Reports (free)

2 – Summaries with 10 key points to remember of the latest European Society of Cardiology Guidelines – Latest in Cardiology, American College of Cardiology

– 2017 ESC Guidelines for the Management of STEMI (free)

– 2017 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for Management of Valvular Heart Disease (free)

– 2017 ESC Guidelines for PAD Diagnosis and Treatment (free)

– 2017 ESC Focused Update on DAPT in CAD (free)

See also our selection of the most relevant articles and commentaries from the Meeting, #ESCCongress Part I, #ESCCongress Part II and #ESCCongress Part III

3 – Noncommunicable Diseases Progress Monitor 2017 – World Health Organization (free)

News release: WHO launches new NCDs Progress Monitor (free)

Related WHO resources: Noncommunicable diseases: the slow-motion disaster – World Health Organization (free) AND Preventing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) by reducing environmental risk factors – World Health Organization (free) AND Other dimensions of the NCD crisis: from mental health, ageing, dementia and malnutrition to deaths on the roads, violence and disability (free) AND Tools for implementing WHO PEN (Package of essential noncommunicable disease interventions) (free) AND WHO’s work on NCDs (free)

4 – Ethics and the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide: An American College of Physicians Position Paper (free)

Commentaries: ACP reaffirms opposition to physician-assisted suicide – ACP Internist (free) AND ACP Reaffirms Position Against Physician-Assisted Suicide – Physician’s First Watch (free)

5 – Association of Cigarette Price Differentials With Infant Mortality in 23 European Union Countries – JAMA Pediatrics (free)

Commentaries: Budget cigs linked to higher infant mortality: Stopping their sale could reduce deaths – Irish Health (free) AND The Fatal Toll of Cheap Cigarettes – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

6 – Impact of Electronic Cigarettes on the Cardiovascular System – Journal of The American Heart Association (free)

7 – Guideline: Contemporary Management of Cardiogenic Shock: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association – Circulation (free PDF)

Top Ten Things to Know: Contemporary Management of Cardiogenic Shock (free PDF)

8 – Cancer’s Invasion Equation – The New Yorker (free)

We can detect tumors earlier than ever before. Can we predict whether they’re going to be dangerous?

9 – Medical News & Perspectives: Going With the Flow: The Promise and Challenge of Liquid Biopsies – JAMA (free)

Related: Emerging concepts in liquid biopsies – BMC Medicine (free) AND Can a ‘liquid biopsy’ detect cancer and save lives? – STAT (free)

10 – Use of public defibrillators linked to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: The Effects of Public Access Defibrillation on Survival After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies – Circulation (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

“Each minute of delay to defibrillation is estimated to reduce the probability of long-term survival by 10%” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)