A study conducted in Estonia from January 2016 to May 2017 among adults aged 20-64 in the city of Tartu and Tartu County found that the annual prevalence of primary headaches in Estonia is as follows: all headaches 41.0%, migraine 17.7%, tension-type headache 18.0%, trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias 0.4%...
This guideline aims to provide evidence for prevention, recognition, and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage including severe hemorrhage leading to hemorrhagic shock.
Benefits, harms, and costs
Appropriate recognition and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage can prevent serious morbidity while reducing cost...
La hipertensión arterial (HTA), o presión arterial elevada, es una enfermedad que se caracteriza
por la elevación persistente de la presión arterial sistólica >140 mmHg y diastólica >90 mmHg
(1); la cual conlleva al incremento del riesgo de enfermedades en diferentes órganos como el
corazón, cere...
La injuria renal aguda (IRA) se define como un aumento agudo de la creatinina sérica o una
reducción del volumen de orina producto de una lesión renal(1), cuya incidencia reportada es
de 21,6 % en adultos (IC95 % 19.3 – 24.2) y con una mortalidad de aproximadamente 24% (IC95%
22.1 – 25.7).(2)
Se h...
La apendicitis aguda es la emergencia quirúrgica abdominal más común en todo el mundo.
Puede afectar a pacientes de cualquier edad, sin embargo, la mayor incidencia ocurre entre las
personas de 20 a 30 años. (1) Durante la gestación, la apendicitis es la emergencia quirúrgica no
obstétrica más co...
La Sociedad Chilena de Cirugía Bariátrica y Metabólica, junto a otras sociedades científicas, lideró el proceso de adaptación de la guía de práctica clínica de obesidad en adultos para Chile, tomando como base las directrices desarrolladas para Canadá. La guía canadiense buscó, entre sus prin...
The scope of the guideline is urate-lowering therapy in patients with chronic kidney disease (not on dialysis) without symptomatic hyperuricemia (such as gout and/or uric acid stone formation). The guideline does not make recommendations about the management of uric-acid kidney stones or gout in people w...
Woodworth, Kate R;
Moulia, Danielle;
Collins, Jennifer P;
Hadler, Stephen C;
Jones, Jefferson M;
Reddy, Sujan C;
Chamberland, Mary;
Campos-Outcalt, Doug;
Morgan, Rebecca L;
Brooks, Oliver;
Talbot, H. Keipp;
Lee, Grace M;
Bell, Beth P;
Daley, Matthew F;
Mbaeyi, Sarah;
Dooling, Kathleen;
Oliver, Sara E.
The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 (BNT162b2) vaccine is a lipid nanoparticle–formulated, nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine encoding the prefusion spike glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. On August 23, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a Biologics License Applicati...
Douketis, James D;
Spyropoulos, Alex C;
Murad, Hassan M;
Arcelus, Juan I.;
Dager, William E;
Dunn, Andrew S;
Fargo, Ramiz A;
Levy, Jerrold H;
Samama, C Marc;
Shah, Sahrish H;
Sherwood, Matthew W;
Tafur, Alfonso J;
Tang, Liang V;
Moores, Lisa K.
The American College of Chest Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline on the Perioperative Management of Antithrombotic Therapy addresses 43 Patients-Interventions-Comparators-Outcomes (PICO) questions related to the perioperative management of patients who are receiving long-term oral anticoagulant or an...
The Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline for Diabetes Management in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) represents a focused update of the KDIGO 2020 guideline on the topic. The guideline targets a broad audience of clinicians treating people with diabetes and CKD. ...
