More articles from Guidelines to Practice
- When risks outweigh benefits: A review of the guideline on benzodiazepine tapering
The new joint clinical practice guideline provides a framework for deciding when tapering is appropriate and for implementing safe, patient-centered discontinuation strategies.
- Updated guidelines for pharmacologic treatment of perinatal depression: Understanding medication options
In a guideline update, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists now recommends using pharmacotherapy to treat perinatal depression, with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors as first-line medications.
- Optimizing bowel preparation for colonoscopy: Updated consensus recommendations
Key updates in the 2025 guideline include simplifying dietary restrictions to low-residue foods for a single day before colonoscopy, preferring 2-L over 4-L preparation regimens, and universally recommending split-dose administration.
- New atrial fibrillation guideline: Modify risk, control rhythm, prevent progression
Key updates in the new American guideline include recommendations for aggressive lifestyle and risk-factor modifications, annual assessment of thromboembolic risk, and early rhythm control.
- 2024 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular management before noncardiac surgery: What’s new?
The author highlights key changes and recommendations of the new guideline, how they differ from previous and other society guidelines, and ongoing challenges and unresolved issues in perioperative care.
- Hyperglycemic crises in adults: A look at the 2024 consensus report
A new report introduces revised criteria for the diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycemic hyperosmolar state, as well as new recommendations for assessment, management, and prevention of these disorders.
- Inpatient glycemic management in noncritically ill patients: Updated guidelines
The guidelines include a role for newer diabetes technologies and nontraditional insulin and noninsulin therapies.
- A new policy update on breastfeeding: What all clinicians need to know
An overview of current American Academy of Pediatrics policy, directed to clinicians of all disciplines who may interact with breastfeeding mothers and their babies.
- Guidelines for the management of trigeminal neuralgia
Care pathways for patients with trigeminal neuralgia vary widely. The most recent UK guidelines emphasize the need for evidence-based care plans for multidisciplinary management.
- Aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: What do the current USPSTF guidelines say?
A concise overview of the US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations.