Search results for "Mechanical ventilation"
Invasive mechanical ventilation at end of life may be more common in Asian Americans
Researchers used a 20% random sample of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries to compare receipt of invasive mechanical ventilation among Asian American and White patients hospitalized in the last 30 days of life.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/05/4.htm
5 May 2021
May 2020
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/
Racial bias, advanced mechanical ventilation, and COVID-19
The June ACP Hospitalist is online and in the mail, with strategies to fight bias, a bonus online Expert Analysis on mechanical ventilation, a description of a pandemic night shift, and virtual conference coverage.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/06/10/3.htm
10 Jun 2020
July 5, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/05/
Studies find practice variation and frequent adverse events with mechanical ventilation
About 45% of critically ill patients experienced at least one major adverse peri-intubation event in one international study, while another study found that weaning and discontinuation practices vary around the world.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/31/5.htm
31 Mar 2021
September 14, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/14/
Intensity of renal replacement associated with mechanical ventilation duration
A post hoc analysis of a randomized trial found that critically ill patients with acute kidney injury were less likely to be successfully extubated and had fewer ventilator-free days if they received more intensive versus less intensive renal replacement therapy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/06/03/5.htm
3 Jun 2020
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
Early high-flow oxygen reduced need for mechanical ventilation, sped recovery
About a third of hypoxemic patients with severe COVID-19 who were randomized to high-flow nasal oxygen in the ED or ICU were eventually intubated, compared to 51% of those who received conventional oxygen, a trial in Columbia found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/12/08/1.htm
8 Dec 2021
June 2007
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/