Do not perform PET/CT for cancer screening in healthy subjects.
The probability of diagnosing a malignant neoplasm with PET/CT in asymptomatic patients is less than 1%. Many of these cases are indolent neoplasms, which do not benefit from early therapy, or advanced stage tumors (for example tumors starting from the pancreas). The...
Do not use non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) in subjects with arterial hypertension, heart failure, renal insufficiency from any cause, including diabetes.
NSAIDs and 2 cyclooxygenase inhibitors (anti-COX-2) – although widely used even without a medical prescription – can cause important side effects including increased blood pressure, lower response to antihypertensive treatments, water retention and...
Do not delay palliative cares in the dying patients.
It is important that physicians give proper care to terminally ill patients; they require appropriate and early recognition of their needs (also through the use of standardized and validated tools) thus leading to correct management of symptoms (such as pain, dyspnea,...
Use a restrictive strategy for transfusions of red blood cells (RBCs) (hemoglobin threshold 7-8 g/dl) in patients with anemia in the absence of acute coronary syndrome, current major bleeding or critical conditions and in patients with chronic anemia.
The restrictive strategy, both in patients with chronic anemia and in those with anemia in the absence of acute coronary syndrome or active major bleeding, including patients hospitalized with onco-haematological pathologies, consists in the transfusion of...The campaign DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN DOING BETTER – CHOOSING WISELY ITALY is promoted by Italy’s Slow Medicine
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