Search results for "Intensive care"
Immediate angiography after cardiac arrest did not provide benefit in a trial
Thirty-day mortality was the same in patients resuscitated for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest without ST-segment elevation, regardless of whether they received immediate coronary angiography or initial intensive care with delayed or selective angiography.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/09/01/2.htm
1 Sep 2021
Intermediate care unit helped surgical, COVID-19 patients
An intermediate care unit with a maximum census of six created over 1,000 available ICU bed-days over 12 months.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/14/free/intermediate-care-unit-helped-surgical-covid-19-patients.htm
14 Feb 2024
Long-term beta-blocker therapy associated with improved outcomes in sepsis
An observational cohort study in Israel found that patients hospitalized with sepsis on general medicine wards had better 30-day survival if they had been taking beta-blockers for at least one year.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/01/27/2.htm
27 Jan 2021
A look back at an intense year in intensive care
Three experts analyze the pandemic response.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/04/a-look-back-at-an-intense-year-in-intensive-care.htm
15 Apr 2021
Physician resuscitation champions associated with higher rates of surviving in-hospital cardiac arrest
In a survey study, hospitals that had a very active physician champion of Get With the Guidelines—Resuscitation were four times more likely to be in a higher survival quintile than participating hospitals that did not.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/24/4.htm
24 Feb 2021
Drug shortages drag on
Almost all hospital pharmacists reported facing drug shortages in a recent survey, but there are some available solutions, one expert says.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/04/free/drug-shortages-drag-on.htm
4 Oct 2023
August 2007
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/
Palliative care for a pandemic
In a recent interview, Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, described how palliative care expertise and resources are, and can be, applied to the current crisis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/08/3.htm
8 Apr 2020
September 2007
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/
Transfers as a surge solution
A researcher explained how setting up a system to enable interregional transfers could help resolve bed shortages for COVID-19 patients in a recent interview with ACP Hospitalist.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/11/04/2.htm
4 Nov 2020