Search results for "Acute kidney injury"
Acute kidney injury risk factors identified in orthopedic surgery patients
Researchers developed a risk score based on 7 factors: older age, male sex, diabetes, number of prescribed drugs, lower estimated glomerular filtration rate, use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin-receptor blockers, and higher American Society of Anesthesiologists grade.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/11/18/1.htm
18 Nov 2015
October 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/10/
May 2010
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/05/
NSF rare with newer gadolinium-based contrast agents, review finds
Researchers advised caution when using newer gadolinium-based contrast agents in patients with impaired kidney function and suggested that more research on nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) is needed in this population.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/06/24/5.htm
24 Jun 2020
March 2021
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/03/
June 2017
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/06/
Mixed findings on remdesivir for COVID-19, news on SARS-CoV-2 vaccines
Among other news this week, the NIH and the WHO released results from remdesivir trials, more negative findings were published for hydroxychloroquine, and ACP and Annals of Internal Medicine held a vaccine forum featuring Anthony S. Fauci, MD, MACP, and other experts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/10/21/1.htm
21 Oct 2020
Catching postop problems
An expert offers tips on dealing with postoperative fever, urinary retention, nausea and vomiting, acute kidney injury, and atrial fibrillation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/22/catching-postop-problems.htm
22 Nov 2023
Influenza associated with worse in-hospital outcomes in heart failure patients
Rates of in-hospital mortality, acute respiratory failure with and without mechanical ventilation, and acute kidney injury with and without dialysis were higher in heart failure patients who had influenza versus those who did not.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/09/3.htm
9 Jan 2019
MKSAP quiz on acute kidney injury
These cases and commentary, which focus on acute kidney injury, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP16).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/10/ty.htm
15 Oct 2013