Search results for "Cardiology"
Does door-to-diuretic time matter?
Heart failure experts explain conflicting research about significance of speedy delivery of diuretics in an exacerbation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/09/does-door-to-diuretic-time-matter.htm
15 Sep 2018
Patients may have slightly higher in-hospital mortality after PCI in safety net hospitals
The mortality difference between safety net and non-safety net hospitals appeared to attenuate as hospitals' percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) volume increased.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/08/09/3.htm
9 Aug 2017
A different score and factor to consider before surgery
Hospitalists should think beyond the Revised Cardiac Risk Index when providing preoperative assessments, attendees at Internal Medicine Meeting 2022 learned.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/05/04/a-different-score-and-factor-to-consider-before-surgery.htm
4 May 2022
Angiography timing didn't affect mortality in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome
Although the meta-analysis found no effect overall, certain subgroups of high-risk patients did appear to have slightly lower mortality when an invasive strategy was applied earlier rather than later.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/08/09/2.htm
9 Aug 2017
Readmission, mortality rates high for hospitalized HF patients worldwide
A systematic review and meta-analysis found that 13.2% and 35.7% of heart failure (HF) patients were readmitted at 30 days and one year and that 7.6% and 23.3% had died by those respective time points.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/26/readmission-mortality-rates-high-for-hospitalized-hf-patients-worldwide.htm
26 Jul 2023
Guideline updated to include new drugs for stage C heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
The update to the 2013 American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association guideline adds the angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor valsartan/sacubitril and the sinoatrial node modulator ivabradine to the list of treatment options.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/05/25/3.htm
25 May 2016
Speeding STEMI care
Regional networks can get patients to PCI promptly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/03/speeding-stemi-care.htm
15 Mar 2017
Making sense of stents
Hospitalists are sorting through new evidence that patients who get drug-eluting stents are at risk for potentially deadly stent thrombosis for months, even years, after the devices are implanted. That's added new layers to medical and surgical decision making and put more pressure on hospitalists to facilitate communication among doctors and patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/05/best-practices.htm
15 May 2007
ACC releases decision pathway for periop anticoagulation in nonvalvular afib
The pathway, based on expert consensus, offers recommendations on whether and how to periprocedurally bridge and the process of restarting anticoagulation after a procedure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/01/25/3.htm
25 Jan 2017
Improvement seen in survival differences by race after in-hospital cardiac arrest
The reduction in survival difference by race appeared to be linked to elimination of racial differences in survival of acute resuscitation, while differences in postresuscitation survival persisted.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/08/16/4.htm
16 Aug 2017