December 24, 2025
Building bridges to buprenorphine
Teaming substance use navigators with hospital clinicians helped one hospital better tackle substance use disorder.
FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors recalled for inaccurate results
The FDA also announced the first drug approval under its new priority voucher pilot program.
Effects of high-flow oxygen may depend on respiratory effort before extubation
A very small trial compared measures of respiratory effort in the 24 hours after extubation by whether patients were randomized to high-flow nasal oxygen or conventional oxygen therapy and did not find statistically significant differences.
Left atrial enlargement can be identified using POCUS, study reports
Hospitalists trained in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) found that left atrial anteroposterior diameter was a more specific and sensitive indicator of left atrial enlargement than visual assessment of the left atrium-to-aorta diameter, although both worked reasonably well.
‘Social admissions' often involve medically complex patients
The “social admissions” pathway at a hospital in Nova Scotia was often used for older adults with cognitive impairment, while younger adults admitted under this pathway frequently had alcohol use disorder and intellectual disabilities, a retrospective study found.
Multimorbidity linked with poor outcomes in acute heart failure patients, study finds
More than a third of patients hospitalized with acute heart failure had at least one cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic comorbidity, which the study defined as prior myocardial infarction, impaired kidney function, and diabetes.
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