February 12, 2025
A phone call is not enough
A recent review found that postdischarge contacts didn't budge readmissions. The lead author explains what that means for practice and research.
Nonopioid approved for moderate to severe pain
The medication, suzetrigine, is a first-in-class drug, targeting a pain-signaling pathway involving sodium channels in the peripheral nervous system, and was tested on patients with pain following abdominoplasty and bunionectomy.
Thrombectomy fails to provide benefit in stroke with medium, distal occlusions
Patients with ischemic stroke due to medium- or distal-vessel occlusion had similar functional outcomes and mortality with endovascular thrombectomy or usual medical therapy, two new randomized trials found.
U.S. has higher CV hospitalization rate of older adults than Denmark
The cross-sectional comparison of the two high-income countries found that rates of cardiovascular (CV) hospitalizations were higher among low-income adults than among higher-income adults in both places, but much more dramatically so in the U.S. than in Denmark.
Hospitalists lack knowledge about handling dysphagia in dementia, survey finds
When hospitalists were asked whether dysphagia diets improve quality of life for patients with dementia, a third agreed, a third disagreed, and a third had no opinion. The surveyed clinicians also did not routinely discuss goals of care for patients with dysphagia and dementia.
Genotyping may help predict afib risk after stroke
Adding polygenic risk scores for atrial fibrillation to existing clinical risk factors improved prediction of afib risk, a study of U.S. stroke survivors found.
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