Search results for "Disabilities"
Assess stroke rehab needs sooner, better
New guidelines focus on rehabilitation and recovery.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/10/q-a-stroke-rehab.htm
15 Oct 2016
Discharge meds
A patient's request presents an ethical dilemma.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/10/free/newman.htm
15 Oct 2016
Endovascular thrombectomy reduced disability when given within 7 hours of symptoms
The odds of a stroke patient who received thrombectomy in addition to medical therapy having better function at 90 days than a patient who received medical therapy alone decreased the longer the patient spent between symptom onset and arterial puncture.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/10/05/2.htm
5 Oct 2016
Crucial coding rules for clinicians
Principal diagnosis, secondary diagnoses, principal procedure, and present on admission are covered.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/09/coding-rules.htm
15 Sep 2016
Cases from Saint Louis University Hospital
Anaphylaxis to mammalian meat, rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, typhoid fever, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/09/brief-case.htm
15 Sep 2016
Recent Research
Bleeding risk score, lower blood pressure targets in cerebral hemorrhage, mobility after discharge, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/09/recent-research.htm
15 Sep 2016
Frailty may help predict outcomes after cardiac surgery in older adults
The authors recommended that clinicians should try to classify patients preoperatively into 3 groups: extreme risk, high risk, and low risk.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/08/24/4.htm
24 Aug 2016
Lower blood pressure target didn't improve outcomes in acute intracerebral hemorrhage
The authors concluded that for patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, targeting a systolic blood pressure of 110 to 139 mm Hg does not provide clinical benefit over a target of 140 to 179 mm Hg.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/06/15/1.htm
15 Jun 2016
Building new stroke systems
Now that endovascular therapy has been officially endorsed by experts, how should hospitals respond?
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/02/endovascular-therapy-stroke.htm
15 Feb 2016
Patients with and without lesions have similar outcomes after nondisabling ischemic stroke
Twenty-nine percent of patients who had a nondisabling ischemic stroke did not have a lesion identified on diffusion-weighted MRI.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/10/07/2.htm
7 Oct 2015