Search results for "Nutrition"
Thick liquid diet may not improve outcomes in patients with dementia, dysphagia
A cohort study found no difference in hospital mortality and higher risk for respiratory complications in patients with Alzheimer disease and related dementias who received a thick versus thin liquid diet.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/15/thick-liquid-diet-may-not-improve-outcomes-in-patients-with-dementia-dysphagia.htm
15 May 2024
Individualized nutrition support lowered mortality after heart failure hospitalization
The greatest benefit from an inpatient nutritional intervention was seen in men older than 78 years who had other acute and chronic medical illnesses in addition to heart failure, according to this secondary analysis of a randomized trial in Switzerland.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/05/3.htm
5 May 2021
A plan for paracentesis
A hospitalist launched a clinic to provide paracentesis to patients who repeatedly presented to the ED with ascites.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/22/free/a-plan-for-paracentesis.htm
22 May 2024
May 15, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/15/
ICUs not meeting guidelines for nutrition
Tylenol and other products recalled for odor Counterfeit Alli pills found on Internet
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/01/27/4.htm
27 Jan 2010
October 2019
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/10/
Guidelines advise on early start to enteral nutrition for critically ill
The guidelines from the Society of Critical Care Medicine and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition were expanded to include additional subsets of patients, including those with organ failure, acute pancreatitis, certain surgical conditions, sepsis, chronic critical illness, and obesity.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/01/27/1.htm
27 Jan 2016
February 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/02/
Adding immune-modulating agents to enteral nutrition potentially harmful, study finds
Ventilated patients who received enteral nutrition enriched with immune-modulating agents had no fewer infections, and possibly higher mortality, than patients on standard nutrition, a recent study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/08/13/1.htm
13 Aug 2014
August 2009
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/08/