Original Investigation  December 13, 2023 Medical Students’ Perspectives on Family Planning and Impact on Specialty Choice Ebernella Shirin Dason, Madalina Maxim, Dionne Gesink, et al JAMA Surg. Published online December 13, 2023. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2023.6392 Key Points Question  What are medical students’ perspectives about family planning within a medical career and do these perspectives affect their choice of specialty? F...

Original Investigation  December 13, 2023 Clinical Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury and Exposure to Extracranial Surgery: A TRACK-TBI Study Christopher J. Roberts, Jason Barber, Nancy R. Temkin, et al JAMA Surg. Published online December 13, 2023. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2023.6374 Key Points Question  Are functional and cognitive outcomes worse after traumatic brain injury (TBI) in those exposed to extracranial surgery and anes...

Original Investigation  December 18, 2023 Association Between Daily Toothbrushing and Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Selina Ehrenzeller, Michael Klompas JAMA Intern Med. Published online December 18, 2023. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.6638 Key Points Question  Is daily toothbrushing among hospitalized patients associated with prevention of hospital-acquired pneumonia and improved objectiv...

ICU Management & Practice, Volume 23 - Issue 4, 2023 Using iMg Testing for Clinical Management in the ICU An overview of ionised serum magnesium as an important biomarker for critically ill patients and how iMg testing is utilised at Mater Intensive Care. Ionised Serum Magnesium - An Important Biomarker Magnesium is the fourth most common cation in the body and the second most abundant intracellular cation, exceeded only by potassium. The bulk of it i...

ARTICLES| VOLUME 11, ISSUE 12, P1064-1074, DECEMBER 2023 Efficacy and safety of baricitinib or ravulizumab in adult patients with severe COVID-19 (TACTIC-R): a randomised, parallel-arm, open-label, phase 4 trial Frances C Hall, Joseph Cheriyan, Andrew P Cope, et al Lancet Respir Med 2023; 11: 1064-1074 Published: November 14, 2023 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(23)00376-4 Summary Background From early in the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence suggested ...

ONLINE FIRST (FREE ACCESS) LATEST ARTICLES OPEN ACCESS ~ OriginalPrehospital high-dose methylprednisolone in resuscitated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients (STEROHCA): a randomized clinical trialObling L. E. R. et al. OriginalInflammatory subphenotypes in patients at risk of ARDS: evidence from the LIPS-A trialRedaelli S. et al. Identification of genetic profile and biomarkers involved in acute respiratory distress syndromeCao S. et al. Selective dige...

#LIVES2023: Magnesium Sulphate in Patients with Thrombotic Thrombocytopaenic Purpura Previous research has indicated the potential benefits of using magnesium sulphate in thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura (TTP) treatment. The goal of the Magnesium sulphate in patients with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (MAGMAT) study was to assess the impact of magnesium sulphate supplementation on the recovery of patients with TTP. This was a multicentre study invo...

Original Investigation  AI in Medicine December 19, 2023 Measuring the Impact of AI in the Diagnosis of Hospitalized Patients: A Randomized Clinical Vignette Survey Study Sarah Jabbour, David Fouhey, Stephanie Shepard, et al JAMA. 2023;330(23):2275-2284. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.22295 Key Points Question  How is diagnostic accuracy impacted when clinicians are provided artificial intelligence (AI) models with image-based AI model...

Invited Commentary  November 15, 2023 Who Looks Like a Surgeon?—Evaluating Reflections From a Digital Mirror Rebecca Sorber, M. Libby Weaver JAMA Surg. Published online November 15, 2023. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2023.5705 As the number of publicly available tools using artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly expanded, innumerable attempts to find beneficial applications for such tools in medicine follow close behind.1 Perhaps one of the mo...

Research Letter  November 2, 2023 Changes in Employment in the US Health Care Workforce, 2016-2022 Thuy Nguyen, Christopher Whaley, Kosali I. Simon, et al JAMA. 2023;330(20):2018-2019. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.18932 The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a variety of disruptions to the health care workforce.1Data on select health care workforce sectors chronicle patterns in employment through 2021.1-3 Lack of national studies on the broad health care workf...