Search results for "Blood Pressure"
January 2012
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/01/
Risk for death appears higher in STEMI patients without standard modifiable risk factors
Patients, especially women, who presented with ST-segment elevation (STEMI) and did not smoke or have hypertension, diabetes, or hypercholesterolemia had a significantly higher all-cause mortality rate than those with a risk factor in a retrospective Swedish study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/17/4.htm
17 Mar 2021
January 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/01/
Home telemonitoring may reduce readmissions in high-risk patients
A randomized trial at two tertiary care hospitals found that risk for death or readmission within 30 days was 18.2% in patients who received home telemonitoring after discharge versus 23.7% in those who received standard care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/03/3.htm
3 Feb 2021
July 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/07/
Physiologic assessment for shock associated with use of vasopressors but not fluids, study finds
The authors noted that physiologic assessment was not common in the first 24 hours after shock onset and was performed more often in sicker patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/07/08/3.htm
8 Jul 2020
October 2010
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/10/
Recent Research
Blood pressure after stroke, mortality risk prediction, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/04/rr.htm
15 Apr 2014
MKSAP quiz on endocarditis
This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program 17 about endocarditis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/10/mksap-quiz-on-endocarditis.htm
15 Oct 2017
Test yourself: MKSAP quiz on hematology
These cases and commentary, which address hematology, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/12/ty.htm
15 Dec 2011