Search results for "Critical care"
ICU clinician education increased guideline compliance, decreased ICU brain dysfunction
A trial in the Netherlands required ICU nurses and physicians to complete two e-learning programs, one focused on delirium screening and the other focused on recommendations from the American College of Critical Care Medicine's 2013 guidelines on pain, agitation, and delirium.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/16/3.htm
16 Jan 2019
Calls to poison control centers for gabapentin, baclofen increased in recent years
The increase in exposures to and misuse of these medications in the U.S. may represent an unintended consequence of recent reductions in opioid prescribing for pain management, study authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/12/11/3.htm
11 Dec 2019
Documenting and billing for critical care services
To avoid rejection of critical care codes, physicians must be familiar with coding definitions, and documentation must reflect the professional services that support the codes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/03/coding.htm
15 Mar 2010
New guidelines cover ventilation, drugs for critically ill patients with COVID-19
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign has offered recommendations on infection control, ventilation strategies, and use of corticosteroids and other potential therapies for COVID-19.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/01/1.htm
1 Apr 2020
Do you need a checklist?
There's limited evidence but apparent potential for these tools in hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/do-you-need-a-checklist.htm
15 Feb 2021
ATS/IDSA release clinical practice guideline on diagnosing, treating CAP
The new American Thoracic Society (ATS) and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) guideline updates the 2007 community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) guideline and includes significant changes, such as preferring macrolides over fluoroquinolones.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/10/09/2.htm
9 Oct 2019
Beating burnout
Speakers at Hospital Medicine 2018 offer their advice on preventing, recognizing, and recovering from burnout.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/beating-burnout.htm
15 Jun 2018
Prone positioning, venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation may help improve outcomes in moderate to severe ARDS
A systematic review and network meta-analysis compared and ranked therapeutic strategies in adults with moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) to determine which were associated with reduced mortality.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/08/07/4.htm
7 Aug 2019
Puzzling it out together
Hospitalists share strategies for pandemic problems.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/puzzling-it-out-together.htm
15 Oct 2020
New guideline on treating critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency
The guideline from the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine is an update to consensus statements on the topic published in 2008.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/10/04/2.htm
4 Oct 2017