This is the sixth annual summary of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations. This summary addresses the most recently published resuscitation evidence...
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Progression of Atrial Fibrillation after Cryoablation or Drug Therapy
Background: Atrial fibrillation is a chronic, progressive disorder, and persistent forms of atrial fibrillation are associated with increased risks of thromboembolism and heart failure. Catheter ablation as initial therapy may modify the pathogenic mechanism of atrial fibrillation and alter...
Antibody Response Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Implications for Immunity: A Rapid Living Review
The aims of this rapid systematic review are to synthesize evidence on the prevalence, levels, and durability of the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 infection among adults and how antibodies correlate with protective immunity. Given the rapidly evolving evidence within this field, the Agency for...
Physical Activity: Home-based Exercise Interventions for Adults Aged 65 years and Older
The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends home-based exercise interventions to improve physical fitness (i.e., muscle strength, muscle power, muscle endurance, balance) among adults aged 65 years and older. The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd edition...
Diagnosis and Management of Hereditary Hemochromatosis
Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a heterogeneous genetic disorder that results in unregulated and excessive intestinal iron absorption leading to overabundance of iron deposition in tissue. HH is most common in people of northern European ancestry, for whom the prevalence is 1 case per 300...
Hormone Therapy in Postmenopausal Persons: Primary Prevention of Chronic Conditions
Importance: Menopause is defined as the cessation of a person's menstrual cycle. It is defined retrospectively, 12 months after the final menstrual period. Perimenopause, or the menopausal transition, is the few-year time period preceding a person's final menstrual period and is characterized by...
Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Objectives: Identify and abstract data from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to update the PTSD Trials Standardized Data Repository (PTSD-Repository) with data on PTSD and mental health, including suicide-related outcomes and substance use.
...Effect of fluvoxamine on outcomes of nonhospitalized patients with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Objectives: This meta-analysis investigated the use of fluvoxamine for the treatment of nonhospitalized patients with COVID-19.
Methods: PubMed, Web of Science, Ovid medline, Embase, Scopus, Cochrane Library databases, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched for studies published before June...
Health supervision for children with Down syndrome
These guidelines are designed to assist the pediatrician in caring for the child in whom a diagnosis of Down syndrome has been confirmed by chromosome analysis. Although a pediatrician's initial contact with the child is usually during infancy, occasionally the pregnant woman who has been given...
Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adolescents with Obesity
BACKGROUND
A once-weekly, 2.4-mg dose of subcutaneous semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, is used to treat obesity in adults, but assessment of the drug in adolescents has been lacking.
METHODS
In this double-blind, parallel-group, randomized, placebo-...