Search results for "Opioids"
The risky rise of gabapentinoids
There are reasons to worry about these opioid alternatives.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/12/the-risky-rise-of-gabapentinoids.htm
15 Dec 2019
Joint Commission offers safety briefing on drug diversion
Among other recommendations, The Joint Commission called on hospitals to establish a just culture of “see something, say something” in which reporting drug diversion is encouraged.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/04/24/4.htm
24 Apr 2019
New labeling on long-acting opioids and fluoroquinolones
Details on recalls, warnings and approvals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/11/fda.htm
15 Nov 2013
Hospitalizations, heart valve surgeries for drug-associated infective endocarditis increase
From 2007 to 2017, annual hospitalizations for drug use-associated infective endocarditis increased by about 12-fold in one state, with opioids implicated in nearly two-thirds of cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/12/05/2.htm
5 Dec 2018
Hospitalizations for drug abuse-related infective endocarditis increased from 2002 to 2016
Alongside the opioid epidemic, the percentage of U.S. hospitalizations for infective endocarditis that were associated with drug abuse nearly doubled from 2002 (8.0%) to 2016 (16.3%).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/09/25/1.htm
25 Sep 2019
June issue online and in the mail
This issue offers conference coverage from Internal Medicine Meeting 2019, held in Philadelphia in April.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/06/12/5.htm
12 Jun 2019
Study identifies potential predictors of hospital-onset C. difficile infection
In patients colonized with Clostridioides difficile, risk factors for infection included longer length of stay, exposure to multiple classes of antibiotics, use of opioids, and cirrhosis, whereas use of laxatives was associated with a lower risk.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/17/1.htm
17 Jul 2019
When your patient is on dialysis
A nephrologist ran down the initial steps hospitalists should take after admitting a long-term dialysis patient during a lecture at Internal Medicine Meeting 2022.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/05/11/when-your-patient-is-on-dialysis.htm
11 May 2022
Mortality in year after overdose lower with methadone or buprenorphine treatment
About 30% of patients who survived an opioid overdose in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2014 received medications for opioid use disorder in the subsequent 12 months, most commonly buprenorphine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/06/20/4.htm
20 Jun 2018
September issue online and in the mail
This month's issue focuses on recent shortages of IV opioids and saline, door-to-diuretic time, and in-hospital cardiac arrest.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/09/12/5.htm
12 Sep 2018