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Mashup Score: 2Challenges and Innovations in Dementia Care - 5 day(s) ago
Dementia, a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive and functional loss, is a devastating illness that requires a complex set of medical and social services for care. It is also common. This combination of high prevalence, complex management, and serious consequences for…
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Mashup Score: 54Cardiac Arrest in Apparently Healthy, Young Adults - 5 day(s) ago
This narrative review summarizes the epidemiology and pathophysiology of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death and discusses the clinical assessment and treatment of apparently healthy young adults with no known structural heart or coronary artery disease.
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This narrative review summarizes the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical assessment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death in young, healthy adults. https://t.co/dAIMpo8sEQ https://t.co/i3JjiTKOLh
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Mashup Score: 9Challenges and Innovations in Dementia Care - 5 day(s) ago
Dementia, a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive and functional loss, is a devastating illness that requires a complex set of medical and social services for care. It is also common. This combination of high prevalence, complex management, and serious consequences for…
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"Dementia care uniquely requires supports that span both the medical and social sectors, resulting in costs, including caregiving, that exceed those of heart failure or cancer." Read the Editorial. https://t.co/Vzg2oxAWUx
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Mashup Score: 8
This randomized clinical trial investigates whether a dementia care management program with integrated palliative care improved the neuropsychiatric symptoms of community-dwelling patients and their caregivers compared with usual care.
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Among community-dwelling patients with moderate to severe dementia and their caregivers, dementia palliative care, compared with usual care, did not improve patients’ neuropsychiatric symptoms through 24 months. https://t.co/LHvwf3nxL1 https://t.co/opfZpQHrer
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Mashup Score: 13Health System, Community-Based, or Usual Care for Persons With Dementia and Caregivers - 5 day(s) ago
This clinical trial compares the efficacy of health system, community, and usual care delivered to patients with dementia and their caregivers.
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This RCT found no significant differences in patient behavioral symptoms and caregiver strain between health system-based and community-based #dementia care interventions, nor between either intervention and usual care. https://t.co/uYhJKqHLBE https://t.co/ssvnn9K8U4
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Mashup Score: 2The current issue of JAMA - 6 day(s) ago
Read the current issue. Keep up to date with the latest research, clinical reviews, and opinions.
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Editor’s choice from the March 18 issue: https://t.co/VFV1MjpV86 ➡️ Palliative Care Program for Community-Dwelling Individuals With Dementia ➡️ Active Monitoring With or Without Endocrine Therapy for Low-Risk Ductal Carcinoma In Situ ➡️ Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in… https://t.co/BZrqj69oww https://t.co/R4Sr0UmuLl
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Mashup Score: 2
ARDS, which is characterized by hypoxemic respiratory failure and inflammatory injury to the lungs, has a mortality rate of 30% to 40%. Balasubramanian Venkatesh, MD, of the George Institute for Global Health joins JAMA Deputy Editor Kristin Walter, MD, MS, to discuss the effects of inhaled sedation with sevoflurane for patients with moderate to severe ARDS.
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Listen to a discussion of sevoflurane sedation in ARDS with Balasubramanian Venkatesh of the George Institute for Global Health, who joins JAMA Deputy Editor Kristin Walter. https://t.co/sRCBppEF2f #ISICEM25
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Mashup Score: 8Sevoflurane Sedation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome - 6 day(s) ago
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterized by hypoxemic respiratory failure and inflammatory injury to the lungs, and occurs in 10% of all intensive care unit admissions. ARDS accounts for nearly a quarter of all patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation and is associated…
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"[T]he choice of agents and the intensity of sedation in ARDS are a matter of debate." Read this Editorial on sevoflurane sedation in acute respiratory distress syndrome. https://t.co/21TWy25CEJ #ISICEM25 https://t.co/OkFdgpt0By
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Mashup Score: 12Optimal Vasopressin Initiation in Septic Shock - 6 day(s) ago
This multicenter study uses reinforcement learning to examine the treatment implications of a vasopressin initiation rule developed to improve short-term and hospital outcomes in critically ill adults with septic shock receiving norepinephrine.
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The initiation of vasopressin following recommendations by a reinforcement learning model was associated with decreased mortality in patients with septic shock already receiving norepinephrine. https://t.co/zJkpbAM8MP #ISICEM25 https://t.co/DbV1ypqcKc
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Mashup Score: 85Inhaled Sedation in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome - 6 day(s) ago
This clinical trial compares the efficacy of inhaled sevoflurane vs intravenous propofol for sedation in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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🧵 Among patients with moderate to severe ARDS, inhaled sedation with sevoflurane resulted in fewer ventilator-free days at day 28 and lower 90-day survival than sedation with propofol. https://t.co/YYP6wGnMfQ #ISICEM25 https://t.co/rATdYdhuQX
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"Dementia care uniquely requires supports that span both the medical and social sectors, resulting in costs, including caregiving, that exceed those of heart failure or cancer." Read the Editorial. https://t.co/Fa2Gv3t15P https://t.co/LWHOnNeYmj