Open Update is a bulletin produced by Library Services, St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne.
It presents a selection of open access articles relevant to staff at St Vincent's Health Australia.
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Emergency Care
Challenges for emergency departments: Anti-amyloid therapy and amyloid-related imaging abnormalities in persons with dementia.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society:2024: July 22 Full text
Airway management in patients with suspected or confirmed cervical spine injury.
Anaesthesia:2024:79(8):856-68 Full text
COVID-19
Admission screening testing of patients and staff N95 masks are cost-effective in reducing COVID-19 hospital acquired infections. AUS
Journal of Hospital Infection:2024: July 15 Full text
Care in the Community: A COVID-19 initiative to reduce hospital re-presentations among community-dwelling people. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: July 15 Full text
Surgery
Developing the green operating room: exploring barriers and opportunities to reducing operating room waste. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: July 22 Full text
Weaning from mechanical ventilation in the operating room: a systematic review.
British Journal of Anaesthesia:2024:133(2):424-36 Full text
Intensive Care
Effectiveness, experience, and usability of low-technology augmentative and alternative communication in intensive care: A mixed-methods systematic review.
Australian Critical Care:2024: June 12 Full text
Nutrition in the intensive care unit: from the acute phase to beyond.
Intensive Care Medicine:2024:50:1035-48 Full text
Palliative Care
Patients' and caregivers' suggestions for improving assisted dying regulation: a qualitative study in Australia and Canada. AUS
Health Expectations:2024:27(3):e14107 Full text
Patients' and caregivers' suggestions for improving assisted dying regulation: a qualitative study in Australia and Canada. AUS
Health Expectations:2024:27(3):e14107 Full text
Estimating potential palliative care needs for residential aged care: A population-based retrospective cohort study. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: June 24 Full text
Exploring the competency and confidence levels of physiotherapists in the management of patients diagnosed with life-limiting illnesses.
Progress in Palliative Care:2024: July 14 Full text
Mental Health Care
Who cares? Service users' opinions and opportunities for family involvement in mental health care. AUS
International Journal of Mental Health Care Nursing:2024: July 8 Full text
Cardiovascular Diseases
Australia's first cardiac emergency department: Patient profile, activity and performance in the initial 6 months. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia: July 18 Full text
Resistance is not futile: a systematic review of the benefits, mechanisms and safety of resistance training in people with heart failure. AUS
Heart Failure Reviews:2024: April 24 Full text
Systematic hand-held echocardiography in patients hospitalised with acute coronary syndrome.
European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular Imaging:2024: June 11 Full text
Atrial fibrillation: age at diagnosis, incident cardiovascular events, and mortality.
European Heart Journal:2024:45(24):2119-29 Full text
General physicians' perspectives on SGLT2 inhibitors for heart failure. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: July3 Full text
Diabetes
Diabetes in residential aged care: pharmacological management and concordance with clinical guidelines. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: July 3 Full text
Post-trial monitoring of a randomised controlled trial of intensive glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes extended from 10 years to 24 years (UKPDS 91).
Lancet:2024:404(10448):145-55 Full text
Falls
Managing falls onsite in residential aged care homes reduced hospitalisation: Mixed methods results from the Falls Outreach and Residential Mobile Assessment Team (FORMAT) pilot study. AUS
Australasian Journal on Ageing:2024: June 26 Full text
Preventing falls and fall-related injuries in older people. AUS
Medical Journal of Australia:2024: July 1 Full text
