Search results for "Heart failure"
How to identify heart failure in the hospital
About 80% of the time, a good history and physical can diagnose a patient with true heart failure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/04/05/3.htm
5 Apr 2017
December 14, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/14/
Recognize, respond to restrictive eating disorders
Hiding food, exercising discreetly, and manipulating feeding tubes are just a few behaviors hospitalists may have to address.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/20/recognize-respond-to-restrictive-eating-disorders.htm
20 Mar 2024
Simple tool accurately predicts 30-day mortality for heart failure patients in the ED
The tool is based on 13 independent risk factors, including systolic blood pressure, age, N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide level, potassium level, troponin level, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/10/04/1.htm
4 Oct 2017
September 20, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/09/20/
BNP predicts mortality, even in patients without heart failure
The results suggest that an elevated B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) level in a patient without heart failure may warrant additional investigation, including assessment of cardiac structure and function, study authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/16/1.htm
16 May 2018
January 17, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/17/
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/
High d-dimer level on admission for heart failure may indicate higher short-term stroke risk
The study found the optimal d-dimer cutoff value for the risk of ischemic stroke in the hospital or within 30 days was 3.5 µg/mL, and no patients with a d-dimer level under the reference limit of normal had a stroke during follow-up.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/06/13/1.htm
13 Jun 2018
July 13, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/13/