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The Saudi Thoracic Society guidelines for diagnosis and management of noncystic fibrosis bronchiectasis – Annals of Thoracic Medicine (free)

Systemic Therapy for Stage IV Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Update (free)

Commentary: ASCO Guideline on Stage IV NSCLC Therapy Updated – ASCO Post (free)

Prevention of acute kidney injury and protection of renal function in the intensive care unit: update 2017 – Intensive Care Medicine (free)

Expert opinion of the Working Group on Prevention, AKI section, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

Newly diagnosed and relapsed mantle cell lymphoma: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up (free)

Chronic myeloid leukaemia: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up (free)

Related: NCCN Guidelines Insights: Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, Version 1.2017 (free)

Antenatal Corticosteroid Therapy for Fetal Maturation – American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (free)

See also: Summary

Related: Antenatal corticosteroids for accelerating fetal lung maturation for women at risk of preterm birth – Cochrane Library (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND A dose of corticosteroids benefit most women anticipating a preterm delivery – NIHR Signals (free)

Treatment of older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML): revised Canadian consensus guidelines – American Journal of Blood Research (free)

Head and Neck Cancer Survivorship Care Guideline: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Endorsement of the American Cancer Society Guideline – Journal of Clinical Oncology (free)

Guideline: Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy – American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists  (free)

See also: Summary

Related: Opioid Use in Pregnancy, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, and Childhood Outcomes: Executive Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Pediatrics, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the March of Dimes Foundation (free)

GEIS guidelines for gastrointestinal sarcomas (GIST) – Cancer Treatment Reviews (free)

Related: UK clinical practice guidelines for the management of gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) – Clinical Sarcoma Research (free) AND SEOM Clinical Guideline for gastrointestinal sarcomas (GIST) – Clinical and Translational Oncology (free)

The International Liver Transplantation Society Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipient Guideline – Transplantation (free)

Guideline: First Clinical Consensus and National Recommendations on Tracheostomized Children of the Brazilian Academy of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology (ABOPe) and Brazilian Society of Pediatrics (SBP) (free)

Clinical Practice Guideline for Screening and Management of High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)

News release: AAP issues new pediatric hypertension clinical practice guideline – AAP News (free)

The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Inherited Polyposis Syndromes – Diseases of the Colon & Rectum (free)

Clinical Practice Guideline: Safe Medication Use in the ICU – Critical Care Medicine (free)

See also: Executive Summary (free)

When Sports Injuries Lead to Arthritis in Joints – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Related guideline: The Role of Athletic Trainers in Preventing and Managing Posttraumatic Osteoarthritis in Physically Active Populations: a Consensus Statement of the Athletic Trainers’ Osteoarthritis Consortium (free)

Recommendations for HIV Screening of Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men — United States, 2017 – CDC, MMWR (free)

“@CDC_HIVAIDS recommends men who have sex with men be tested for HIV at least annually”. (RT @CDCMMWR see Tweet)

Role of nutrition support in adult cardiac surgery: a consensus statement from an International Multidisciplinary Expert Group on Nutrition in Cardiac Surgery – Critical Care (free)

EANO–ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients with leptomeningeal metastasis from solid tumours – Annals of Oncology (free)

Updated: Practice Parameters and Technical Standards – American College of Radiology (free)

News release: New, Revised Guidance Documents Cover 35 Radiology Topics – American College of Radiology, via NewsWise (free)

The American College of Radiology developed 3 new guidance documents and revised 32 others to advance the science of radiology and improve the quality of service to patients

2017 National Standards for Diabetes Self-management Education and Support – The Diabetes Educator (free)

Commentaries: ADA and AADE Update Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support – AJMC (free) AND Diabetes groups update standards for self-management – ACP Diabetes (free)

Dexamethasone before bowel surgery reduces postoperative nausea and vomiting – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Dexamethasone versus standard treatment for postoperative nausea and vomiting in gastrointestinal surgery: randomised controlled trial (DREAMS Trial) – The BMJ (free)

Surgery must be a core part of health care – even in the poorest countries – The Guardian (free)

Related book: Essential Surgery – Disease Control Priorities 3 (DCP3) (free)

Related report: Global Surgery 2030 (free PDF)

Related commentary on the subject: In countries with a shortage of surgeons, other health care workers can fill in the gaps – STAT (free)

Review: Chronic Pancreatitis: Current Status and Challenges for Prevention and Treatment – Digestive Diseases and Sciences (free)

Related guidelines: United European Gastroenterology evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and therapy of chronic pancreatitis (free) AND Guidelines for the understanding and management of pain in chronic pancreatitis – Pancreatology (free)

Online parental training may help to improve behaviour in children – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Technology-Assisted Parent Training Programs for Children and Adolescents With Disruptive Behaviors: A Systematic Review – The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Addressing Alcohol Use Practice Manual: An Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention Program – American Academy of Family Physicians (free PDF)

Press release: AAFP, Baylor Partner to Create Alcohol Screening Practice Manual (free)

Commentary: Alcohol screening and brief intervention: A practice manual for clinicians – Clinical Advisor (free)

Treatments for reducing menopausal hot flushes are ranked for effectiveness – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Vasomotor symptoms resulting from natural menopause: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of treatment effects from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline on menopause – British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (free)

Guideline: Counseling Adolescents About Contraception – American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (free)

Commentary: Contraception and adolescents: ACOG releases counseling recommendations for clinicians – Clinical Advisor (free)

Guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of primary idiopathic clubfoot – Acta Orthopaedica (free)

Clinical use of biomarkers in breast cancer: Updated guidelines from the European Group on Tumor Markers (EGTM) – European Journal of Cancer (free)

Guideline: Seasonal influenza: managing cases in critical care units – Public Health England (free PDF)

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter

Antibiotic prophylaxis is not indicated prior to dental procedures for prevention of periprosthetic joint infections: A systematic review and new guidelines from the Dutch Orthopaedic and Dental Societies (free)

Source: EvidenceAlerts (free resource to find articles of interest)

Surgical Guidelines for Perioperative Management of Older Adults: What Geriatricians Need to Know – Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, via Medscape (free)

National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support – Diabetes Care (free)

Commentary: New ADA/AADE Standards Combine Diabetes Education, Support – Medscape (free registration required)

Developmental follow-up of children and young people born preterm – NICE Guideline (free)

Treating subclinical thyroid dysfunction in pregnancy probably has no benefit – NIHR Signal (free) (RT see Tweet)

Related: Subclinical Hypothyroidism – NEJM Resident 360 (free) AND Levothyroxine Shows No Benefit in Older Adults with Subclinical Hypothyroidism – Physician’s First Watch (free)

“Treating subclinical thyroid dysfunction in pregnancy probably has no benefit” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)

Acute mesenteric ischemia: guidelines of the World Society of Emergency Surgery – World Journal of Emergency Surgery (free)

New NICE Guideline: Fever in under 5s: assessment and initial management (free)

Guideline: Hip Pain and Mobility Deficits-Hip Osteoarthritis: Revision 2017 – Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) (free)

Recommendations of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology for the induction therapy of ANCA-associated vasculitis (free)

UK guideline on transition of adolescent and young persons with chronic digestive diseases from paediatric to adult care – Gut (free)

2017 consensus of the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society on stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation – Journal of Arrhythmia (free)

Guideline: Nutrition support for adults: oral nutrition support, enteral tube feeding and parenteral nutrition – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

Report: Advancing the Global Health Security Agenda: CDC Achievements & Early Impact (free PDF)

“Read about CDC Achievements in advancing the Global Health Security Agenda” (RT @CDCGlobal see Tweet)

Mechanical clot removal for stroke reduces disability at two years – NIHR Signal (free)

“Mechanical thrombectomy within six hours of stroke onset provides a sustained reduction of disability for patients” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)

Prescribing regular drugs to prevent febrile convulsions risks more harm than benefit – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Prophylactic drug management for febrile seizures in children – Cochrane Library (link to summary – $ for full-text)

“Benefits of anti-epileptic medication for children who’ve had a convulsion while feverish, do not outweigh harms” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)

ESC Joint Working Groups on Cardiovascular Surgery and the Cellular Biology of the Heart Position Paper: Peri-operative myocardial injury and infarction in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery (free)

Summary with 10 key points to remember: Perioperative Myocardial Injury and Infarction After CABG – American College of Cardiology, Latest in Cardiology (free)

Diagnosis, Treatment, and Long-Term Management of Kawasaki Disease: A Scientific Statement for Health Professionals From the American Heart Association (free)

Canadian Urological Association-Pediatric Urologists of Canada (CUA-PUC) guideline for the diagnosis, management, and followup of cryptorchidism (free)

Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: clinical guidelines (free)

Antiemetics: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Update (free)

Related guideline: NCCN Guidelines Insights: Antiemesis, Version 2.2017 (free)

Commentaries: Antipsychotic Added to ASCO Antiemetic Guide – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND New Antiemetic Guidelines Issued by ASCO – Medscape (free registration required)

Choosing Wisely: An International Campaign to Combat Overuse, with new Top 10 recommendations (free) (RT @ChooseWiselyCA and @CADTH_ACMTS see Tweet with infographic)

See more on the Choosing Wisely initiative in our April 5 issue (see #6)

Choosing Wisely has prioritized 10 recommendations for limiting overuse internationally.

Neck Pain: Revision 2017 – Clinical Practice Guidelines Linked to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health from the Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (free)

Resuscitation medicine – Singapore Guidelines

– Basic Cardiac Life Support (free)

– Defibrillation (free)

– Advanced Cardiac Life Support (free)

– Paediatric Resuscitation (free)

– Neonatal Resuscitation (free)

– Post-resuscitation care (free)

– Therapeutic temperature management (TTM): post-resuscitation care for adult cardiac arrest (free)

– Bystander First Aid (free)

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cryosurgery of Pancreatic Cancer: A Consensus Statement From the China Cooperative Group of Cryosurgery on Pancreatic Cancer, International Society of Cryosurgery, and Asian Society of Cryosurgery – Pancreas (free PDF)

Brazilian guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of cystic fibrosis – Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia (free)

Brazilian guidelines for the clinical management of paracoccidioidomycosis – Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (free)

Diagnosis of Upper-Quadrant Lymphedema Secondary to Cancer: Clinical Practice Guideline From the Oncology Section of APTA – Rehabilitation Oncology (American Physical Therapy Association. Oncology Section) (free)

Laparoscopic hysterectomy for benign indications: clinical practice guideline – Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics (free)

Committee Opinion No 707: Access to Emergency Contraception – Obstetrics & Gynecology (free)

Committee Opinion No 706: Sexual Health – Obstetrics & Gynecology (free)

Committee Opinion No. 705: Mental Health Disorders in Adolescents – Obstetrics & Gynecology (free)

Practice Bulletin Number 179: Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and Screening in Average-Risk Women – Obstetrics & Gynecology (free)

Opioid Use in Pregnancy, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, and Childhood Outcomes: Executive Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Pediatrics, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the March of Dimes Foundation (free)

International consensus guidelines for the diagnosis and management of food protein–induced enterocolitis syndrome: Executive summary—Workgroup Report of the Adverse Reactions to Foods Committee, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (free)

Addendum guidelines for the prevention of peanut allergy in the United States: Report of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases–sponsored expert panel (free)

Summary of Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Clinical Practice Guideline on the Evaluation and Care of Living Kidney Donors – Transplantation (free)

KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline on the Evaluation and Care of Living Kidney Donors – Transplantation (free)

Management of undescended testes: European Association of Urology/European Society for Paediatric Urology guidelines (free PDF)

I.S.Mu.L.T. first-time patellar dislocation guidelines – Muscle, Ligaments and Tendons Journal (free)

Guideline: European consensus conference on faecal microbiota transplantation in clinical practice – Gut (free)

Breastfeeding Week Reports: Tracking Progress for Breastfeeding Policies and Programmes: Global breastfeeding scorecard 2017 – World Health Organization, UNICEF (free PDF) AND Nurturing the Health and Wealth of Nations: The Investment Case for Breastfeeding – World Health Organization, UNICEF (free PDF)

See also: UNICEF page on breastfeeding (free)

News release: Babies and mothers worldwide failed by lack of investment in breastfeeding – World Health Organization (free)

“New analysis shows an investment of US$4.70 per newborn could generate US$300 billion in economic gains by 2025”.

Guideline: Intrapartum Management of Intraamniotic Infection – American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) (free)

Commentary: Guidelines on Intraamniotic Infection Released by ACOG – Medscape (free registration required)

Report: The Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Shifting the Focus to Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)

Only Six Nations Have Evaluated Readiness for Global Pandemic – New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

Original Report: From panic and neglect to investing in health security : financing pandemic preparedness at a national level – The World Bank (free PDF)

Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection: An Updated Network Meta-analysis – Annals of Internal Medicine (free)

Related: Guidelines on the management of latent tuberculosis infection – World Health Organization (free)

Report: Antibiotic Use in the United States, 2017: Progress and Opportunities – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (free)

Commentary: CDC antibiotics report calls for all-out stewardship efforts – CIDRAP (free)

“CDC report: antibiotic stewardship protects patients, saves $, slows antibiotic resistance” (RT @IDSAInfo see Tweet)

New National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) Summaries in Low back, Cervical and Thoracic Spine Disorders with focus on occupational health.

Low Back Disorders – American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (free summary from NGC – $ see original guideline in ACOEM website)

Cervical and thoracic spine disorders – American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (free summary from NGC – $ see original guideline in ACOEM website)

World Hepatitis Day (28 July 2017) – World Health Organization Campaign (free)

News release: Eliminate hepatitis: WHO (free)

WHO Updated Factsheets (free): Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis D and Hepatitis E

Tenofovir reduces mother-to-child hepatitis B transmission – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Systematic review with meta-analysis: the efficacy and safety of tenofovir to prevent mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus – Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

The clinical practice guideline for the management of ARDS in Japan – Journal of Intensive Care (free)

Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter (free)

FDA announces comprehensive regulatory plan to shift trajectory of tobacco-related disease, death – U.S. Food and Drug Administration (free)

Commentaries: The FDA just took a radical step to cut nicotine in cigarettes so they’re not addictive – VOX (free) AND FDA Proposes Reducing Nicotine In Cigarettes – NPR (free) AND FDA Targets Cigarettes in Broadening of Fight Against Addiction – Bloomberg (free text and video) AND FDA announces plans to slash nicotine levels in cigarettes – STAT News (free) AND FDA plans to reduce nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels – The Guardian (free)

“Woooow. FDA wants to cut the nicotine in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels. This is a public health power move” (RT @onceuponA see Tweet)

Intensive speech therapy helps stroke survivors with persistent communication difficulties – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Intensive speech and language therapy in patients with chronic aphasia after stroke: a randomised, open-label, blinded-endpoint, controlled trial in a health-care setting – The Lancet (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND commentary: Intensive speech therapy helps months after stroke – Reuters (free)

Online education, pain coaching and advice by video conference can reduce knee pain – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Effectiveness of an Internet-Delivered Exercise and Pain-Coping Skills Training Intervention for Persons With Chronic Knee Pain: A Randomized Trial – Annals of Internal Medicine (free) AND Commentaries: Online Intervention Reduces Knee Pain, Improves Mobility – Medscape (free registration required) AND The Internet may be an effective tool for treating chronic knee pain – 2 Minute Medicine (free) AND Chronic knee pain eased with the help of Skype – CNN (free text and video)

“Reduced pain for 73% of knee pain patients receiving videoconference physio, pain coaching and online education” (RT @NIHR_DC see Tweet)

Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s – NICE Quality Standard (free)

Related guideline: Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management – NICE (free)

Chronic kidney disease in adults – NICE Quality Standard (free)

Commentary: Give chronic kidney disease patients a statin, doctors urged – OnMedica (free)

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation for aortic stenosis –NICE Guideline (free)

Report: Advancing the Science to Improve Population Health – National Academies Press (free)

Report: Building Sustainable Financing Structures for Population Health: Insights from Non-Health Sectors – National Academies Press (free)

Report: Human Genome Editing: Science, Ethics, and Governance (2017) – The National Academies Press (free)

Report: WHO MERS-CoV Global Summary and Assessment of Risk – World Health Organization (free PDF)

Commentary: WHO: Hospital outbreaks underscore MERS challenges – CIDRAP (free)

See also: WHO’s Work on Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)

2017 ISHNE-HRS expert consensus statement on ambulatory ECG and external cardiac monitoring/telemetry (free)

Update: Interim Guidance for Health Care Providers Caring for Pregnant Women with Possible Zika Virus Exposure – MMWR / CDC (free)

Commentaries: CDC Updates Guidelines on Caring for Pregnant Women with Possible Zika Exposure – Physician’s First Watch (free) AND Updated CDC Guidance on Zika in Pregnancy – Medscape (free registration required)

Consolidated Guideline on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women Living with HIV – World Health Organization (free)

See also: Executive Summary (free)

Damage control resuscitation in patients with severe traumatic hemorrhage: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (free)

See also: Guideline Summary: National Guideline Clearinghouse (free)

Canadian Cardiovascular Society and Canadian Pediatric Cardiology Association Position Statement on the Approach to Syncope in the Pediatric Patient (free)

See also: Guidelines Summary: National Guideline Clearinghouse (free)

Policy Statement: Guiding Principles for Team-Based Pediatric Care – American Academy of Pediatrics (free)

Commentary: AAP issues guidelines for ideal pediatric care teams – 2 Minute Medicine (free)

Public health interventions may offer society a return on investment of £14 for each £1 spent – NIHR Signal (free)

Original article: Return on investment of public health interventions: a systematic review – Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (free)

Latest European Society of Cardiology Clinical Practice Guidelines Summary Cards are now available (Atrial Fibrillation, Heart Failure, CVD Prevention, Cardio-Oncology – free PDF summaries).

See Complete list:

– Atrial Fibrillation

– Heart Failure

– European CVD Prevention in Clinical Practice

– Cardio-oncology

– Infective Endocarditis

– Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

– Cardiac Pacing & CRT

– Arterial Hypertension

– Diabetes & Pre-Diabetes, CVD

– Valvular Heart Disease 

WHO implementation tool for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) of HIV infection – World Health Organization (free) (RT @equitylist see Tweet)

Summary: WHO implementation tool for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) of HIV infection (free PDF)

See also: WHO’s Work on Pre-exposure prophylaxis (free resources)

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