BIGG

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Evidence-based clinical practice guideline: Reconstruction after skin cancer resection

J. Am. Acad. Dermatol; 85 (2), 2021
A multi-disciplinary work group involving stakeholders from various backgrounds and societies was convened to develop guidelines for the management of reconstruction after skin cancer resection. The goal was to identify areas of common ground and provide evidence-based recommendations to improve patient ...

Guía GEICAM de práctica clínica para el diagnóstico y tratamiento neoadyuvante del cáncer de mama

El cáncer de mama es la segunda causa de muerte por cáncer en mujeres españolas, con 33.375 nuevoscasos por año, según datos que publica en su informe anual la Sociedad Española de Oncología Médica (SEOM 2021). Representa el 30% de los tumores en mujeres y 1 de cada 8 mujeres desarrollará un cá...

Neonatal infection: antibiotics for prevention and treatment

This guideline covers preventing bacterial infection in healthy babies of up to and including 28 days corrected gestational age, treating pregnant women whose unborn baby is at risk of infection, and caring for babies of up to and including 28 days corrected gestational age with a suspected or confirmed ...

Postnatal care

This guideline covers the routine postnatal care that women and their babies should receive in the first 8 weeks after the birth. It includes the organisation and delivery of postnatal care, identifying and managing common and serious health problems in women and their babies, how to help parents form st...

Guideline No. 417: prevention of venous thromboembolic disease in gynaecological surgery [Pré-print]

The primary objective of this clinical practice guideline is to provide gynaecologists with an algorithm and evidence to guide the use of thromboprophylaxis in gynaecological surgery. All patients undergoing gynaecological surgery for benign or malignant indications. The implementation of this guideline ...

Management of hospitalised adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a European Respiratory Society living guideline

Eur. respir. j; 57 (4), 2021
Hospitalised patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection have a high mortality rate and frequently require noninvasive respiratory support or invasive ventilation. Optimising and standardising management through evidence-based guidelines may improve quality of ca...

Chronic pain (primary and secondary) in over 16s: assessment of all chronic pain and management of chronic primary pain

This guideline covers assessing all chronic pain (chronic primary pain, chronic secondary pain, or both) and managing chronic primary pain in people aged 16 years and over. Chronic primary pain is pain with no clear underlying cause, or pain (or its impact) that is out of proportion to any observable inj...

Appropriate use of short-course antibiotics in common infections: best practice advice from the American College of Physicians

Ann. intern. med; 174 (6), 2021
Antimicrobial overuse is a major health care issue that contributes to antibiotic resistance. Such overuse includes unnecessarily long durations of antibiotic therapy in patients with common bacterial infections, such as acute bronchitis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation, com...

Appropriate use of high-flow nasal oxygen in hospitalized patients for initial or postextubation management of acute respiratory failure: a clinical guideline from the American College of Physicians

Ann. intern. med; 174 (7), 2021
The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to provide clinical recommendations on the appropriate use of high-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) in hospitalized patients for initial or postextubation management of acute respiratory failure. It is based on the best available evidence on the b...

Appropriate use of point-of-care ultrasonography in patients with acute dyspnea in emergency department or inpatient settings: a clinical guideline from the American College of Physicians

Ann. intern. med; 174 (7), 2021
The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to provide clinical recommendations on the appropriate use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) in patients with acute dyspnea in emergency department (ED) or inpatient settings to improve the diagnostic, treatment, and health outcomes...