Search results for "Heart failure"
RSV, other viruses associated with severe respiratory disease, length of stay in adult inpatients
Hospital patients with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), human metapneumovirus, or parainfluenza virus were more likely to require noninvasive or invasive ventilation than general medicine patients who did not test positive for any of those viruses, a national study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/20/rsv-other-viruses-associated-with-severe-respiratory-disease-length-of-stay-in-adult-inpatients.htm
20 Mar 2024
October 18, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/18/
February 15, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/15/
January 18, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/18/
February 8, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/08/
March 23, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/23/
Admit to where?
Heart failure care can be improved by reducing variation between medicine and cardiology.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/04/admit-to-where.htm
15 Apr 2021
Death, rehospitalization risk high after first heart failure hospitalization, study finds
An industry-funded observational cohort study of patients who survived a first hospitalization for heart failure showed that rehospitalization in the following year was common and most frequently due to heart failure or chronic kidney disease.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/28/death-rehospitalization-risk-high-after-first-heart-failure-hospitalization-study-finds.htm
28 Jun 2023
Surgical devices, ventilators, dialysis machines recalled
The FDA also approved first-time generics for spironolactone oral suspension and calcium gluconate, among other actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/15/surgical-devices-ventilators-dialysis-machines-recalled.htm
15 Nov 2023
Cardiac societies issue new joint guideline on management of heart failure
The updated guideline recommends sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors for many heart failure patients, regardless of their diabetes status, among other changes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/06/free/cardiac-societies-issue-new-joint-guideline-on-management-of-heart-failure.htm
6 Apr 2022