January 29, 2025

Thinking harder about heparin
Hospitalists, ED physicians, and interventionalists could benefit from a chat about how they treat pulmonary embolisms.
Pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis
Acuity and location are crucial for accurate documentation and coding of pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis.
In-hospital exercise improved physical function in heart failure patients
Patients with acute heart failure without frailty who received a hospital exercise intervention were six times more likely to achieve a clinically significant improvement in six-minute walking distance after two weeks compared with similar control patients, a small trial in Japan found.
Rules developed by new study help decide when to terminate resuscitation
The five rules for handling in-hospital cardiac arrest were developed and validated in Scandinavian cohorts and are based on variables including unwitnessed arrest, unmonitored arrest, initial rhythm of asystole, and resuscitation duration of at least five or at least 10 minutes.
Mobile vegetations pose highest embolism risk in infective endocarditis
Along with echocardiographic findings, younger age and infection with Staphylococcus aureus were associated with higher risk of developing a systemic embolism within 30 days, a registry of infective endocarditis patients showed.
Several core functions common to hospitals' discharge-by-noon interventions
Fifteen of 17 studies that tested discharge-by-noon projects found that they increased rates of morning discharge. The successful projects commonly included multidisciplinary participation and a structured communication platform, among other characteristics.
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