ACC Issues Concise Clinical Guidance on Evaluation, Management of Cardiogenic Shock
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has issued its first Concise Clinical Guidance on evaluating and managing cardiogenic shock, addressing important questions around clinical decision-making, and providing actionable guidance for health care providers. “ACC has a long history of developing clinical policy to complement clinical practice guidelines and to inform clinicians about areas where evidence is new and evolving or where randomised data is more limited,” said Shashank S. Sinha, MD, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, Virginia. “Despite this, numerous gaps persist in the ...
Updated CKD Management Guidelines Recommend SGLT2 Inhibitors in Patients With, Without Diabetes
The Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) organisation has updated its existing clinical practice guideline on the evaluation and management of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in adults and children. The new guidelines, published in Annal...
Results of an international survey on the management of therapeutic-intensity unfractionated he...
Results of an international survey on the management of therapeutic-intensity unfractionated heparin: communication from the SSC of the ISTH. Unfractionated heparin (UFH) remains the anticoagulant of choice in critically ill patients. However, its la
