Search results for "Correction"
New sepsis risk calculator that uses AI approved
The FDA approved an artificial intelligence (AI) program that identifies patients at risk for sepsis and a higher-dose naloxone spray, among other actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/15/new-sepsis-risk-calculator-that-uses-ai-approved.htm
15 May 2024
Correction
An item in the Dec. 7, 2016, ACP Hospitalist Weekly required correction.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/01/11/5.htm
11 Jan 2017
The latest on inpatient glucose control
A diabetes expert explains where glycemic targets should be now and what may be coming next, including continuous glucose monitors.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/08/the-latest-on-inpatient-glucose-control.htm
8 May 2024
Correction to previous issue
The Jan. 24 ACP Hospitalist Weekly should have said that the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America advises discontinuing contact precautions after obtaining between one and three negative cultures in certain drug-resistant infections, not Clostridium difficile infections, which require no follow-up cultures.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/31/6.htm
31 Jan 2018
February 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/02/
September 2011
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/09/
Rapid intermittent bolus therapy may be better for symptomatic severe hyponatremia
A randomized controlled trial in the Republic of Korea compared hypertonic saline delivered via rapid intermittent bolus versus slow continuous infusion among hospitalized patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/11/04/4.htm
4 Nov 2020
First medication for severe frostbite approved
The FDA also warned about smartwatches claiming to measure blood sugar without piercing the skin, among other recent actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/06/first-medication-for-severe-frostbite-approved.htm
6 Mar 2024
Race-adjusted eGFR may negatively affect CKD care in African American patients
A cross-sectional registry study found that one-third of African American patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) would hypothetically be reclassified to a more severe stage if the race multiplier were removed from a common estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) equation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/10/28/5.htm
28 Oct 2020
Antibiotic OKed for pneumonia, bloodstream, skin infections
In addition to approving ceftobiprole medocaril sodium for three different types of infection, the FDA authorized the first generic version of fidaxomicin, among other actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/10/antibiotic-oked-for-pneumonia-bloodstream-skin-infections.htm
10 Apr 2024