Search results for "healthy"
Illness as a teacher
Over the weeks of his hospital stay, I had the opportunity to know Mr. P not only as a patient but as a friend, a dreamer, a fighter and a witty, compassionate individual.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/10/selfexam.htm
15 Oct 2012
Cases from Yale-New Haven Hospital
This new quarterly column summarizes interesting patients in their doctors' words.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/11/briefcase.htm
15 Nov 2012
Zolpidem linked to greater inpatient fall risk
Inpatients taking zolpidem are significantly more likely to fall than those not taking the drug, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/12/05/2.htm
5 Dec 2012
Too many or too few: Who belongs in the ICU?
Some experts are starting to question how the nation's critical care beds are being used.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/02/coverstory.htm
15 Feb 2013
Cases from Montefiore Medical Center
Amyloid as a cause of refractory heart failure, high-output heart failure from severe anemia, and other cases are discussed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/02/briefcase.htm
15 Feb 2013
Recent Research
Therapy for decompensated heart failure with cardiorenal syndrome, kidney measures for CKD, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/03/rr.htm
15 Mar 2013
ACP unveils tools to improve acute coronary syndrome care
ACP last week unveiled two evidence-based interventions and two videos to improve the health outcomes of patients in the first year after an initial acute coronary syndrome (ACS) event, such as heart attack and unstable angina, the most common ACS indications.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/04/17/6.htm
17 Apr 2013
Consensus statement offers strategies for preventing hypoglycemia
Consequences of hypoglycemia and strategies to prevent this condition in patients with diabetes were discussed in a recent consensus statement from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and The Endocrine Society.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/04/24/4.htm
24 Apr 2013
New option approved for reversal of anticoagulation
An alternative to plasma (Prothrombin Complex Concentrate, Human; brand name, Kcentra) was approved by the FDA last week for the urgent reversal of vitamin K antagonist (VKA) anticoagulation in adults with acute major bleeding.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/05/08/6.htm
8 May 2013
MKSAP quiz on antibiotics
These cases and commentary, which address antibiotics, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP16).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/07/ty.htm
15 Jul 2013