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Library Knowledge Update: Knowledge Update December 23 2024

Knowledge Update is a weekly bulletin including feature articles across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical topics

Knowledge Update

Library Services' Knowledge Update is a weekly bulletin which includes feature articles across a wide range of topics, new physical and e-books in the Library, and websites of interest.

Access to full text articles is available both on and offsite using a St Vincent's login.
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St. Vincent's Hospital staff wishing to be notified when a new issue has been published can join the notification list by contacting Jeremy.Taylor@svha.org.au 

Feature Articles

Introduction of the Broset Violence Checklist in the emergency department: A retrospective cohort study. AUS
Emergency Medicine Australasia:2024: December 12 Full text

Patient and public perspectives on acute type A aortic dissection.
Anaesthesia:2024: December 12 Full text

Navigating ‘deterioration in mental state’ – from recognition to response in general hospitals to satisfy ‘National Standards’: a discussion paper. AUS OA
Contemporary Nurse:2024: December 11
Full text

An interprofessional multicomponent intervention to improve end-of-life care in intensive care: A before-and-after study. AUS
Australian Critical Care:2024: December 16 Full text

Palliative sedation in the treatment of existential suffering in end-of-life patients: An integrative review.
Progress in Palliative Care:2024: December 10
Full text

Nurses' perspectives on the use of prophylactic dressings to prevent pressure injury: a qualitative study. STV OA
Journal of Clinical Nursing:2024: December 9 Full text

Association of preoperative spirometry with postoperative pulmonary complications and prolonged length of hospital stay following coronary artery graft surgery. AUS
Physiotherapy:2024: December 10 Full text

Total-Body PET/CT: Pros and Cons. STV OA
Seminars in Nuclear Medicine:2025:55(1):11-20 Full text

A cautionary view on blood pressure lowering in patients with acute ischaemic stroke receiving reperfusion therapy.
Lancet Neurology:2024: November 24 Full text

In-hospital initiation of sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors in patients with acute heart failure.
Heart Failure Reviews:2025:30:89-101 Full text

The long-term impacts of opioid use before and after joint arthroplasty: matched cohort analysis of New Zealand linked register data. STV OA
Family Practice:2024: December 5 Full text

Classification of chronic kidney disease in older Australian adults by the CKD-EPI 2009 and 2021 equations: secondary analysis of ASPREE study data. AUS Free
Medical Journal of Australia:2024:December 17 Full text

Comparative efficacy and acceptability of pharmacological, psychological, and neurostimulatory interventions for ADHD in adults: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis.
Lancet Psychiatry:2024: December 17
Full text

The muscle stem cell case of Benjamin Button: rejuvenating muscle regenerative capacity through nutraceuticals. OA
Journal of Clinical Invesigation:2024: December 12 Full text

Effects of microplastic exposure on human digestive, reproductive, and respiratory health: a rapid systematic review. OA
Environmental Science and Techmology:2024: December 18 Full text