Search results for "Blood Pressure"
Finding an algorithm for heart failure
The OPTIMIZE-HF study showed which symptoms predicted likelihood of in-hospital mortality from decompensated congestive heart failure and what were the most important predictive factors. Now, there's an algorithm for stratifying patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/heart.htm
15 Nov 2008
The hospitalized hospitalist
James S. Newman, FACP, recalls (somewhat fuzzily) his hip transplant.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/11/free/hospitalist.htm
15 Nov 2008
Test Yourself: Sleep disorders
Sleep disorders.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/12/test.htm
15 Dec 2008
Journal Watch: Recent studies of note
Recent studies about decreasing cardiogenic shock, Geneva scoring for pulmonary embolism, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/12/journal.htm
15 Dec 2008
Breaking the fall: Preventing fractures after discharge
Hospitalization is a risk factor for falls, but also an opportunity for prevention. Recent research suggests that hospitalization is a risk factor for post-discharge fracture in elderly patients, prompting some hospitalists to consider what measures they can take to reduce fracture risk before these patients leave the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/01/falls.htm
15 Jan 2009
Delirium, treating drug resistance, fall prevention
A 75-year-old woman with a long history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is evaluated in the intensive care unit for delirium... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/01/test.htm
15 Jan 2009
In the News
IOM favors more limits on resident hours, and other medical updates.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/01/itn.htm
15 Jan 2009
Journal watch: recent studies of note
Recent studies about C. diff. infections, antibiotic use at teaching hospitals, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/01/journal.htm
15 Jan 2009
Is it sepsis?
John Doe was brought to the emergency department by ambulance from a local nursing home.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/02/coding.htm
15 Feb 2009
In the news
Curnent news about error data, heart disease deaths, and cardiology criteria.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/02/itn.htm
15 Feb 2009