Kevin E. Thorpe

TL;DR: While suboptimal in quality, the preponderance of evidence suggests that physicians have a limited ability to accurately self-assess, and processes currently used to undertake professional development and evaluate competence may need to focus more on external assessment.

TL;DR: In patients who had a stroke within the 3 months before enrolment and had mild-to-moderate upper extremity motor impairment, non-immersive virtual reality as an add-on therapy to conventional rehabilitation was not superior to a recreational activity intervention in improving motor function, as measured by WMFT.

TL;DR: In patients undergoing cardiac surgery who were at moderate‐to‐high risk for death, a restrictive strategy for red‐cell transfusion was noninferior to a liberal strategy with respect to the composite outcome of death from any cause, myocardial infarction, stroke, or new‐onset renal failure with dialysis at 6 months after surgery.

TL;DR: A DASI score of 34 represents a threshold for identifying patients at risk for myocardial injury, myocardia infarction, moderate-to-severe complications, and new disability, and a nested cohort analysis of the Measurement of Exercise Tolerance before Surgery study characterised the association of preoperative DASi scores with postoperative death or complications.

TL;DR: There is a trend toward improved vasopressor requirements among CVVH-treated patients over the first week of treatment, and the results suggest that a large trial comparingCVVH to CVVHD would be feasible.