Search results for "Delirium"
Dealing with addiction
Routine screening and treatment coordination for substance abuse are relatively rare.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/12/addiction.htm
15 Dec 2010
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Oral low-dose steroids for COPD exacerbations, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/01/jw.htm
15 Jan 2011
On the alert for a quiet killer
Patients developing sepsis may go undiagnosed because the early symptoms can be subtle or suggest other disorders.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/01/sepsis.htm
15 Jan 2011
Test yourself: Sepsis
These cases and commentary, which address sepsis, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/01/ty.htm
15 Jan 2011
In the News
Reporting impaired colleagues, updated guidelines on spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/itn.htm
15 Feb 2011
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Hospitalists' cost-effectiveness, vasopressin antagonists and hyponatremia, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/jw.htm
15 Feb 2011
ACEing geriatric care
With their special focus, Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) units have the potential to eliminate many of the issues that make hospitalization more difficult for elderly patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/coverstory.htm
15 Feb 2011
Hospital medicine precourse: From admission to discharge
This new course offers cutting-edge information on hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/02/precourse.htm
15 Feb 2011
Test yourself: COPD
These cases and commentary, which address COPD, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/03/ty.htm
15 Mar 2011
Secondary benefit seen for early tracheotomy in cardiac patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation
Mechanically ventilated patients who had early tracheotomy or prolonged intubation after cardiac surgery didn't differ in number of ventilator-free days or infection rates, but the former required less sedation, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/03/16/4.htm
16 Mar 2011