LibGuides: HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Respiratory Medicine

Clinical Radiology (Feb); Clinical Respiratory Journal, The (Feb-Mar); European Journal of Internal Medicine (Mar); JAMA (Mar); JAMA Pediatrics (Feb); Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, The (Mar); Lancet Respiratory Medicine, The (Feb-Mar); NICE website (Mar); Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease (Mar)

March 2025

Acute decompensated pulmonary hypertension outcomes in pulmonary arterial hypertension patients

Associations between mindfulness and symptom severity among adults living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Clinical features of COVID-19 associated pulmonary aspergillosis: a multicenter, retrospective study

Clinical remission attainment, definitions, and correlates among patients with severe asthma treated with biologics: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Development of an asthma health-care burden score as a measure of severity and predictor of remission in SARP III and U-BIOPRED: results from two major longitudinal asthma cohorts

Differences in the effectiveness of individual‐level smoking cessation interventions by socioeconomic status (new Cochrane intervention review)

Durvalumab with chemotherapy before surgery (neoadjuvant) then alone after surgery (adjuvant) for treating resectable non-small-cell lung cancer (new NICE guideline TA1030)

Efficacy and safety of tezepelumab versus placebo in adults with moderate to very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COURSE): a randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 2a trial

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Empirical antibiotic therapy for sepsis: save the anaerobic microbiota

Global, regional, and national burden of pulmonary arterial hypertension, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Incentives for smoking cessation (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Inhaled reliever therapies for asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

An international consensus on the use of asthma biologics in pregnancy

Interventions for quitting vaping (new Cochrane intervention review)

Intravenous antibiotics for pulmonary exacerbations in people with cystic fibrosis (new Cochrane intervention review)

New insights on continuous renal replacement therapy for acute respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Oral and intranasal aspirin desensitisation for non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drug (NSAID)‐exacerbated respiratory disease (new Cochrane intervention review)

Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence (updated NICE guideline NG209)

Treating eosinophilic exacerbations of asthma and COPD with benralizumab (ABRA): a double-blind, double-dummy, active placebo-controlled randomised trial

Sources

Clinical Respiratory Journal, The (Jan); Cochrane Library (Jan); Heart & Lung (Mar-Apr); JAMA (Jan); Lancet Respiratory Medicine, The (Jan); NICE website (Jan-4th Feb)

January 2025

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (BMJ state of the art review)

Alectinib for adjuvant treatment of ALK-positive non-small-cell lung cancer (new NICE guidance TA1014)

Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management (NICE NG245)

See also: Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management (SIGN 245); Asthma pathway (NICE NG244); British guideline on the management of asthma (SIGN 158)

Biological and therapeutic implications of the cancer-related germline mutation landscape in lung cancer

Community-acquired pneumonia (JAMA review)

Comparison of platinum combination chemotherapy plus pembrolizumab versus platinum combination chemotherapy plus nivolumab–ipilimumab for treatment-naive advanced non-small-cell lung cancer in Japan (JCOG2007)

Effects of aerobic exercise-based pulmonary rehabilitation on quality of life in pediatric asthma

Efficacy and safety of gefapixant in women with chronic cough and cough-induced stress urinary incontinence

Evaluation of elexacaftor–tezacaftor–ivacaftor treatment in individuals with cystic fibrosis and CFTRN1303K in the USA

Interactions between respiratory syncytial virus and Streptococcus pneumoniae in the pathogenesis of childhood respiratory infections

Long-term efficacy and safety of two short standardised regimens for the treatment of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (STREAM stage 2)

Lung transplantation (NEJM review)

Nintedanib for patients with lymphangioleiomyomatosis: a phase 2, open-label, single-arm study

A nomogram for predicting recurrence in stage I non-small cell lung cancer

Pembrolizumab with chemotherapy before surgery (neoadjuvant) then alone after surgery (adjuvant) for treating resectable non-small-cell lung cancer (new NICE guidance TA1018)

Rethinking bronchiectasis as an inflammatory disease

Safety and efficacy of rodatristat ethyl for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (ELEVATE-2)

Savolitinib in patients in China with locally advanced or metastatic treatment-naive non-small-cell lung cancer harbouring MET exon 14 skipping mutations

Stereotactic body radiotherapy with sequential tislelizumab and chemotherapy as neoadjuvant therapy in patients with resectable non-small-cell lung cancer in China (SACTION01)

Supplemental oxygen prescriptions after hospitalization for coronavirus disease 2019

An unusual pulmonary complication of smoking

Sources

BMJ, The (Oct); Clinical Respiratory Journal, The (Nov-Dec); Heart and Lung (Jan-Feb); JAMA (Oct); Lancet Respiratory Medicine, The (Nov-Dec); NEJM (Nov); NICE website (Nov)

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