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Bob Dunn The Assessment of sepsis and Management of sepsis pages have had a few minor modifications following the publication of the following review (which was more theoretical than clinical). Gotts, JE, Matthay, MA. Sepsis: pathophysiology and clinical management. BMJ 2016;353:i1585.
The Low back pain page has been updated with a segment on metastatic spinal cord compression following the recent publication of Al-Qurainy, R, Collis, E. Metastatic spinal cord compression: diagnosis and management. BMJ 2016:i2539.
The Low back pain page has been revised including a clearer explanation of the indications for surgery.
A short segment on Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis has been added to the Pulmonary fibrosis page.
The Psychosis page has been revised including the addition of a table of features that may help differentiate drug induced psychosis from psychosis due to schizophrenia. Glasner-Edwards, S, Mooney, LJ. Methamphetamine psychosis: epidemiology and management. CNS Drugs 2014;28(12):1115-26.
The Hand injuries page has been updated with a revised section on metacarpal fracture management. In particular, the lack of evidence of benefit from surgical management of most metacarpal fractures has been re-emphasised. Neumeister, MW, Webb, K, McKenna, K. Non-surgical management of metacarpal fractures. Clin Plast Surg 2014;41(3):451-61. Sletten, IN, Hellund, JC, Olsen, B, et … Read more
About 20 internal links between overlapping areas in different parts of the manual have been added to aid rapid navigation between the related sections.
Ethnicity has been added as a risk factor for VTE to the Deep venous thrombosis page. Liao, S, McAnulty, K, Lim, C, et al. Ethnicity as an independent predictive factor for the results of CT pulmonary angiography and ultrasonography of the lower limbs. Internal Medicine Journal 2016:n/a-n/a.
The Deep venous thrombosis page has been updated with a segment on May-Thurner syndrome, estimated to cause 2-5% of DVTs. Lee, AI, Ochoa Chaar, CI. The Hidden Lesion. N Engl J Med 2016;374(22):2160-65.
The Seizures page has been updated with a segment on seizures in pregnancy. Kinney, MO, Morrow, J. Epilepsy in pregnancy. BMJ 2016:i2880
The Aging page has been updated with additional information about the epidemiology and assessment of falls, including the timed up and go test. Vieira, ER, Palmer, RC, Chaves, PH. Prevention of falls in older people living in the community. BMJ 2016;353:i1419.
A segment on Stiff person syndrome has been added to the Other movement disorders page.
The Cardiovascular risk reduction page has been updated with the recommendation that fasting for lipid sampling is no longer required. Mora, S. Nonfasting for routine lipid testing: From evidence to action. JAMA Internal Medicine 2016.
The Peritoneal dialysis page has been updated with an AXR image of a correctly positioned Tenckoff catheter.
The Paracetamol ingestion algorithm on the Paracetamol page has been updated with the expanded indications for oral activated charcoal contained in the September 2015 Australian management guidelines.
Some minor revisions to the Paracetamol page have been made, including the NNT (7) for charcoal within 2 hours of ingestion.
The Update quiz for July 2016 has just been uploaded.
The segment on Osteoid osteoma on the Bone tumours page has been revised.
The Torture and trauma page has been updated to include the use of prazosin for patients with PTSD.
The Crush injury page has been updated with information about the benign nature of exercise induced rhabdomyloysis (without heat stroke).