Search results for "Catheters"
Multidrug resistance
The latest edition of ICD-10 includes new codes for antibiotic resistance.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/02/coding-corner-multidrug-resistance.htm
15 Feb 2020
Top 10 afib pearls
From prevalence and risk factors to treatment options.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/06/afib-pearls.htm
15 Jun 2015
Complicated UTI, stress ulcer prophylaxis, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/11/recent-research.htm
15 Nov 2018
November 23, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/23/
Mechanically ventilated ICU patients see no mortality benefit from arterial catheters
ICU patients on mechanical ventilation who had arterial catheters didn't have lower mortality rates than ventilated patients without arterial catheters, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/09/17/2.htm
17 Sep 2014
Recent Research
Statins and stroke, azithromycin and mortality, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/10/rr.htm
15 Oct 2012
Uncertainty clouds protocols
Sepsis strategies studied and debated.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/03/sepsis.htm
15 Mar 2015
PICC study finds complications more likely with malnutrition, nighttime insertion
A new study of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) uncovered some novel risk factors to predict complications, including malnutrition and after-hours placement.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/06/18/2.htm
18 Jun 2014
Hospitalists' PICC practices, knowledge need to be improved
Hospitalists prefer peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) to central venous catheters but don't always employ safe practices in their use, a new survey found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/04/03/2.htm
3 Apr 2013
Journal watch
Recent studies about medical trainee errors, chlorhexidine intervention, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/journal.htm
15 Dec 2007