Search results for "Pressure ulcers"
June 2018
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/
Oxandrolone does not appear to help healing in pressure ulcers
Treatment with the anabolic steroid oxandrolone does not appear to improve healing in patients with pressure ulcers, according to a new trial.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/05/22/3.htm
22 May 2013
July 2007
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/07/
August 2011
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/08/
1 in 5 patients had adverse event after ICU discharge to hospital ward
The most common adverse events after transfer from the ICU were supportive care failures (e.g., falls, pressure ulcers, fluid and electrolyte disorders) and drug-related events, and more than a third were judged to have likely been preventable, a Canadian study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/29/5.htm
29 Apr 2020
Lots to learn about long-term care
A new curriculum helped hospitalists moving into postacute care fill gaps in their knowledge base.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/28/lots-to-learn-about-long-term-care.htm
28 Feb 2024
June issue online and in the mail
This month's issue of ACP Hospitalist covers news from Hospital Medicine 2018, including articles about physician burnout, opioids, COPD, pressure ulcers, and technological advances.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/06/13/5.htm
13 Jun 2018
Documenting and treating pressure ulcers
A wound care expert reviewed the stages of pressure ulcers (or injuries).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/06/documenting-and-treating-pressure-ulcers.htm
15 Jun 2018
Surgical, nonsurgical management of hip fracture compared in nursing home residents with advanced dementia
Patients who had been managed surgically had less documented pain and fewer pressure ulcers, but use of antipsychotic drugs and physical restraints did not appear to differ, and few patients in either group remained ambulatory at six months.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/16/2.htm
16 May 2018
February 2012
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/02/