Search results for "Intensive care"
Intensive care management for high-risk VA patients didn't affect overall costs
The trial focused on patients in the Veterans Affairs system (VA) who had recently had a hospital admission or ED visit and who were considered high risk for admission within 90 days.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/06/06/4.htm
6 Jun 2018
February 2019
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/02/
April 2021
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/04/
No difference found for moderate vs. mild hypothermia for comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
There may not be a single, optimal target temperature for all patients with cardiac arrest, noted the authors of a trial that compared target temperatures of 31 °C and 34 °C. The effects of therapeutic hypothermia could be modulated by several clinical variables, they suggested.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/10/27/4.htm
27 Oct 2021
MKSAP quiz on intensive care
This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 18) that take place in the ICU.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/02/mksap-quiz-on-intensive-care.htm
15 Feb 2019
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
Guideline addresses viral testing in patients with community-acquired pneumonia
The new American Thoracic Society guideline opposes routine use of nucleic acid-based testing for noninfluenza viral pathogens in outpatients with community-acquired pneumonia but identifies some uses for the tests in inpatients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/12/4.htm
12 May 2021
Take a bite out of HAP
Brushing teeth reduces hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) risk, and changes are needed to make this simple practice happen more regularly in the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/06/free/take-a-bite-out-of-hap.htm
6 Mar 2024
Survival of critical illness in ICU linked to subsequent suicide, self-harm
Compared to hospital survivors who never required ICU admission, those who were discharged from an ICU had a higher risk of suicide and self-harm in a Canadian study. Risk factors included previous psychiatric diagnoses and use of life-support interventions in the ICU.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/12/2.htm
12 May 2021
December 2007
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/