Search results for "critical care"
February 7, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/07/
March 27, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/27/
Suctioning frequency, high-flow oxygen can determine when to decannulate tracheostomy
A randomized trial in Spanish ICUs found that patients whose readiness for decannulation was determined by frequency of suctioning instead of a 24-hour capping trial had less time to decannulation and shorter length of stay.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/16/3.htm
16 Sep 2020
February 1, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/01/
May issue online and in the mail
This issue focuses mainly on tools to combat COVID-19, including ventilation management, telemedicine, and palliative care. Other articles address Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and vitamin C for sepsis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/05/13/6.htm
13 May 2020
March 23, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/23/
Palliative care for a pandemic
In a recent interview, Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, described how palliative care expertise and resources are, and can be, applied to the current crisis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/08/3.htm
8 Apr 2020
Deterioration alert system did not reduce escalations from medical and surgical units
The single-center study of a machine learning-based alert system did find that mortality was lower among patients on a medical unit where staff were notified when the computer predicted high risk of deterioration.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/28/deterioration-alert-system-did-not-reduce-escalations-from-medical-and-surgical-units.htm
28 Feb 2024
Studies look at how COVID-19 mortality varied by hospital, over time
Hospital strain seems to be a significant factor in patients' mortality from COVID-19, according to a study analyzing deaths among ICU patients by hospital and another comparing March and April 2020 outcomes to those later in the year.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/05/2.htm
5 May 2021
MKSAP quiz on critical care
This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 18) on critical care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/mksap-quiz-on-critical-care.htm
15 Oct 2020