Search results for "Supplement"
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies about STEMI death rates in women vs. men, pressure ulcer treatements, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/02/journal.htm
15 Feb 2009
ACP unveils tools to improve acute coronary syndrome care
ACP last week unveiled two evidence-based interventions and two videos to improve the health outcomes of patients in the first year after an initial acute coronary syndrome (ACS) event, such as heart attack and unstable angina, the most common ACS indications.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/04/17/6.htm
17 Apr 2013
Be prepared: The ins and outs of serotonin syndrome
Hospitalists could go their whole career without ever seeing a case of serotonin syndrome, or they could already have had several patients suffering from mild to moderate serotonin toxicity and not have known.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/04/serotonin.htm
15 Apr 2013
Fourth universal definition of myocardial infarction
The new definition replaces the term necrosis with the concept of myocardial injury.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/12/coding-corner-fourth-universal-definition-of-myocardial-infarction.htm
15 Dec 2018
Cases from Montefiore Medical Center
Amyloid as a cause of refractory heart failure, high-output heart failure from severe anemia, and other cases are discussed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/02/briefcase.htm
15 Feb 2013
Khat use in the U.S.
A public health perspective.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/08/khat.htm
15 Aug 2008
Tocilizumab approved for COVID-19
The FDA gave full approval to tocilizumab for adults with COVID-19 who are receiving systemic corticosteroids and require supplemental oxygen, noninvasive or invasive mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, among other actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/25/tocilizumab-approved-for-covid-19.htm
25 Jan 2023
Cases from the Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center
Infective endocarditis, milk-alkali syndrome, and multiple myeloma.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/03/brief-case-kaiser-permanente-santa-rosa-medical-center.htm
15 Mar 2018
Don't look now, but you are surrounded
It is somewhat unsettling to consider that we are outnumbered by microbes in our own skin by a factor of about ten cells to one.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/genomics.htm
15 Aug 2011
More hospitals adopting EHRs, but some lag behind, study finds
By 2014, 40.5% of hospitals had met stage 2 meaningful use—almost a sevenfold increase from the prior year.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/11/18/3.htm
18 Nov 2015