Search results for "Pneumonia"
March 2019
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/03/
October 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/10/
Gabapentin associated with delirium, pneumonia in older postop patients
A propensity-matched study found that patients ages 65 years and older who received gabapentin after surgery had a 3.4% risk of delirium and 1.3% risk of pneumonia, compared to 2.6% and 1.2%, respectively, in patients not taking the drug. Risk of in-hospital death was similar between groups.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/09/28/gabapentin-associated-with-delirium-pneumonia-in-older-postop-patients.htm
28 Sep 2022
May 2019
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/
June 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/06/
September 2009
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/09/
Risk factors may not accurately identify complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia
The Infectious Diseases Society of America's criteria for determining complicated S. aureus bacteremia had low to moderate predictive value and could lead to unnecessary antibiotic treatment, according to a prospective cohort study in the Netherlands.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/10/risk-factors-may-not-accurately-identify-complicated-staphylococcus-aureus-bacteremia.htm
10 Jan 2024
Acute kidney injury, racial disparities
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/recent-research.htm
15 Jan 2020
COVID-19, other pneumonia causes associated with similar mortality after ventilation
The authors of a retrospective cohort study comparing outcomes between patients with pneumonia due to COVID-19 versus other causes said that use of mechanical ventilation in the former group should follow guidelines established for the latter.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/01/18/free/covid-19-other-pneumonia-causes-associated-with-similar-mortality-after-ventilation.htm
18 Jan 2023
July 12, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/12/