Low-dose chest CT screening for lung cancer has become a standard of care in the United States, in large part because of the results of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST). Additional evidence supporting the net benefit of low-dose chest CT screening for lung cancer, and increased experience in mini...
Esta guía de práctica clínica, en cuya elaboración se siguió el método GRADE, tiene por objeto proveer recomendaciones para el manejo de pacientes adultos críticos con COVID-19 atendidos en las unidades de cuidados intensivos. Ofrece recomendaciones basadas en evidencia para la identificación de ...
Patient Care Management,
Critical Care,
COVID-19/diagnostic imaging,
COVID-19/complications,
COVID-19/drug therapy,
SARS-CoV-2/drug effects,
Anti-Retroviral Agents/therapeutic use,
Americas/epidemiology,
Risk Factors,
Ventilators, Mechanical,
Plasma/immunology,
Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use,
Immunologic Factors/therapeutic use
Ghoshhajra, Brian;
Hedgire, Sandeep;
Hurwitz Koweek, Lynne;
Beache, Garth;
Brown, Richard;
Davis, Andrew;
Hsu, Joe;
Johnson, Thomas;
Kicska, Gregory;
Kligerman, Seth;
Litmanovich, Diana;
Maroules, Christopher;
Meyersohn, Nandini;
Rabbat, Mark;
Villines, Todd;
Wann, Samuel;
Abbara, Suhny.
Coronary atherosclerotic disease is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity due to major cardiovascular events in the United States and abroad. Risk stratification and early preventive measures can reduce major cardiovascular events given the long latent asymptomatic period. Imaging tests can detect s...
Training/instruction of staff in using the selected psychometric test is recommended to achieve sufficiently high
sensibility and specificity. As delirium is a fluctuating condition, repeated testing after hours or days is recommended,
as well as in connection with mental changes in patients with one or ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, despite being largely curable and preventable. In 2019 an estimated 2.9 million of the 10 million people who fell ill with TB were not diagnosed or reported to the World Health Organization. The Political Declaration adopted by...
The Committee on Dyslipidemia of Korean Pediatric and Adolescents of the Korean Society of Pediatric Endocrinology has newly developed evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for dyslipidemia in Korean children and adolescents. These guidelines were formulated with the Grading of Recommendations, whi...
Andrade, J. G;
Aguilar, M;
Atzema, C;
Bell, A;
Cairns, J. A;
Cheung, C. C;
Cox, JL;
Dorian, P;
Gladstone, D. J;
Healey, J. S;
Khairy, P;
Leblanc, K;
McMurtry, M. S;
Mitchell, L. B;
Nair, G. M;
Nattel, S;
Parkash, R;
Pilote, L;
Sandhu, R. K;
Sarrazin, J. F;
Sharma, M;
Skanes, A. C;
Talajic, M;
Tsang, T. S. M;
Verma, A;
Verma, S;
Whitlock, R;
Wyse, D. G;
Macle, L.
The Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) atrial fibrillation (AF) guidelines program was developed to aid clinicians in the management of these complex patients, as well as to provide direction to policy makers and health care systems regarding related issues. The most recent comprehensive CCS AF guidel...
Atrial Fibrillation/diagnosis,
Atrial Fibrillation/therapy,
Atrial Fibrillation/epidemiology,
Atrial Fibrillation/classification,
Risk Factors,
Stroke/prevention & control,
Atrial Fibrillation/physiopathology,
Sex Factors,
Risk Groups,
Algorithms,
Critical Pathways
This guideline covers the early and longer-term (rehabilitation) management of acute coronary syndromes. These include ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and unstable angina. The guideline aims to improve survival and quality of lif...
besity is a chronic disease characterized by the presence of excessive and/or dysfunctional adipose tissue that impairs health and wellbeing.
Obesity increases the risk of serious chronic illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, among others.
Obesity...
Obesity is a complex chronic disease in which abnormal or excess
body fat (adiposity) impairs health, increases the risk of long-term
medical complications and reduces life span. However, due to individual differences in body composition, body fat distribution and
function, the threshold to which adiposi...
