Search results for "Biomarkers"
Latest COVID-19 research finds benefit from prone positioning, arthritis drugs
Prone positioning was helpful in patients not on mechanical ventilation, and two very small studies found positive outcomes with drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. ACP members can join a bulk purchase of N95s and gowns.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/06/24/1.htm
24 Jun 2020
In the News
Alzheimer's guidelines, opioid education, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/09/itn.htm
15 Sep 2011
Recommendations address cardiac evaluation in transplant candidates
The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology Foundation released a scientific statement last week on cardiac disease evaluation and management in candidates for liver and kidney transplants.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/07/11/1.htm
11 Jul 2012
Recent Research
PE hospitalizations and vena cava filter placements, preadmission glucocorticoids and 30-day poststroke mortality, troponin and heart failure readmissions, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/04/recent-research.htm
15 Apr 2016
coding corner 4 ACP Hospitalist • December 2018 The ...
The recommended biomarkers for evaluation of myocardial injury and MI are troponins. ... Under the new universal definition, troponin is the only recommended diagnostic biomarker for MI.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/12/acph-201812-coding-corner-fourth-universal-definition-of-myocardial-infarction_t1.pdf
30 Nov 2018
Cystatin C improves accuracy in calculations of Black patients' kidney function
Equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate more accurately predict risk of kidney failure and mortality in Black patients if they include both creatinine and cystatin C, but not race, according to a new retrospective study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/15/cystatin-c-improves-accuracy-in-calculations-of-black-patients-kidney-function.htm
15 Jun 2022
Is it pneumonia?
Concerns are growing that pneumonia is being overdiagnosed. Here's how you can stem the trend.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/03/pneumonia.htm
15 Mar 2014
New definition of MI released
A consensus document from several cardiology organizations recently provided new official definitions of myocardial infarction (MI).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/09/12/1.htm
12 Sep 2012
Table. Types of myocardial infarction (MI) Type Description 1 ...
2 MI due to supply/demand mismatch. 3 Death from MI when biomarkers not available.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/acph-201710-coding-icd-10-definitions-of-mi_t1.pdf
29 Sep 2017
acp-hosp0907
The diagnosis of MI is based on detection of rise and/or fallof cardiac biomarkers (preferably troponin) with evidence ofischemia, defined as the following:. ... When cardiac biomarkers. are. elevated in the absence of clinical. evidence of ischemia, the provider.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/07/acph-200907-coding_t1.pdf
14 Jul 2009