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Rounding with laptops may make residents more efficient, small study finds
Residents on one internal medicine team who were given a novel workflow and a mobile laptop for three months were significantly more likely to place progress notes during rounding hours and sign discharge summaries within 24 hours of discharge than comparison control teams.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/05/18/rounding-with-laptops-may-make-residents-more-efficient.htm
18 May 2022
When your patient is on dialysis
A nephrologist ran down the initial steps hospitalists should take after admitting a long-term dialysis patient during a lecture at Internal Medicine Meeting 2022.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/05/11/when-your-patient-is-on-dialysis.htm
11 May 2022
Flying thrombectomy teams faster than transferring stroke patients
The median time from the decision to pursue endovascular thrombectomy to the start of the procedure was 58 minutes in patients who received thrombectomy from interventionists deployed to them by helicopter and 148 minutes in patients transferred to the hospital, a German study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/05/11/flying-teams-to-perform-thrombectomy-faster-than-transferring-stroke-patients.htm
11 May 2022
Five steps to a better discharge
Research has shown that patients have a few common priorities at discharge, and hospitalists can tweak their practices to make it more likely these desires are fulfilled.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/05/04/free/five-steps-to-a-better-discharge.htm
4 May 2022
Care bundle did not reduce CRBSIs in hemodialysis patients
A stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized trial of 37 renal centers in Australia found a similar rate of catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) before and after implementation of a care bundle focused on catheter insertion, maintenance, and removal.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/20/care-bundle-did-not-reduce-crbsis-in-hemodialysis-patients.htm
20 Apr 2022
Ease up on antipsychotics
Antipsychotics started for an episode of agitation in the ICU are often continued through hospitalization and even after discharge, posing serious health risks to patients, experts say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/06/free/ease-up-on-antipsychotics.htm
6 Apr 2022
Where's my patient?
Real-time location services are gaining traction as a tool for finding equipment and patients in the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/06/free/where-is-my-patient.htm
6 Apr 2022
Rapid testing of health care workers with COVID-19 found many still positive at day 5
Rapid antigen testing for SARS-CoV-2 could be a safe and effective method for guiding return to work, according to the authors of a retrospective study of health care personnel infected in January.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/06/free/rapid-testing-of-health-care-workers-with-covid-19-found-many-still-positive-at-day-5.htm
6 Apr 2022
Isolation intensifies ICU impacts
The senior author of a recent study discusses the potential link between social isolation and increased disability and mortality after hospitalization for a critical illness, and what this might mean in the era of COVID-19.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/30/free/isolation-intensifies-icu-impacts.htm
30 Mar 2022
A deeper look at inpatients with blindness
Hospitalists should be aware that their patients with severe vision impairment or blindness have significantly higher risk of in-hospital mortality and lower odds of being discharged home, says the coauthor of a recent study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/16/free/a-deeper-look-at-inpatients-with-blindness.htm
16 Mar 2022