Search results for "Acute kidney injury"
Babesiosis
An older patient with multiple comorbidities presented with headaches, fevers, myalgias, arthralgias, and some loss of balance.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/20/free/babesiosis.htm
20 Dec 2023
Adding vancomycin to cefazolin didn't reduce infections among arthroplasty patients
Cefazolin plus vancomycin did not lead to lower surgical-site infection rates compared with cefazolin plus placebo in patients getting knee, hip, or shoulder replacement surgery, a randomized trial in Australia found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/25/free/adding-vancomycin-to-cefazolin-didnt-reduce-infections-among-arthroplasty-patients.htm
25 Oct 2023
Atrial fibrillation common, increasing among patients hospitalized for COPD
In-hospital mortality was higher among patients who had atrial fibrillation in addition to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but it decreased significantly over time, from 6.1% in 2003 to 2.9% in 2014.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/30/4.htm
30 Jan 2019
Analysis finds no association between IV contrast and kidney impairment
A Canadian study found that IV contrast was not associated with dialysis, death, or mean change in estimated glomerular filtration rate over six months in adults undergoing CT pulmonary angiography in the ED.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/04/14/3.htm
14 Apr 2021
March issue online and in the mail
This issue looks at hospital care at home, social determinants of health, acute kidney injury, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/03/11/5.htm
11 Mar 2020
Intensity of renal replacement associated with mechanical ventilation duration
A post hoc analysis of a randomized trial found that critically ill patients with acute kidney injury were less likely to be successfully extubated and had fewer ventilator-free days if they received more intensive versus less intensive renal replacement therapy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/06/03/5.htm
3 Jun 2020
Neither rate nor type of fluid resuscitation affected outcomes in ICU patients, trial finds
A balanced solution was compared to a 0.9% saline solution in a large trial in Brazilian ICUs that also randomized the same patients to undergo fluid challenges at rates of either 333 mL/h or 999 mL/h.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/08/18/2.htm
18 Aug 2021
Septic shock patients who received IV thiamine had faster lactate clearance, study finds
The results of this retrospective study are in accordance with previous research finding benefits to thiamine supplementation in patients with laboratory-confirmed deficiencies, the authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/07/25/2.htm
25 Jul 2018
Influenza associated with worse in-hospital outcomes in heart failure patients
Rates of in-hospital mortality, acute respiratory failure with and without mechanical ventilation, and acute kidney injury with and without dialysis were higher in heart failure patients who had influenza versus those who did not.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/09/3.htm
9 Jan 2019
Nearly all deaths related to noncardiac procedures occur after surgery, study finds
About 45% of deaths that occurred in the 30 days after noncardiac surgery were associated with three complications: major bleeding, myocardial injury, and sepsis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/08/07/3.htm
7 Aug 2019