Search results for "Emergency Medicine"
A quick heart failure stay
Heart failure patients who would typically be admitted were treated instead on a short-stay unit in a recent project.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/13/a-quick-heart-failure-stay.htm
13 Mar 2024
Discharge lounges done right
Studies show how to make these waiting spaces useful, even in a pandemic.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/discharge-lounges-done-right.htm
15 Feb 2021
Guideline released on evaluation, management of syncope
The joint guideline from the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the Heart Rhythm Society includes detailed treatment recommendations for cardiovascular conditions, including arrhythmic conditions, structural conditions, and inheritable arrhythmic conditions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/03/15/4.htm
15 Mar 2017
Prepping for nerve agents
Feds, clinical experts offer guidance for hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/12/prepping-for-nerve-agents.htm
15 Dec 2018
Most hospital-based specialists work longer hours than physicians in ambulatory settings
Specialists who care for more acutely ill patients work longer hours than those who care for more stable, chronically ill patients—though hospitalists are an exception, a new analysis found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/07/20/2.htm
20 Jul 2011
Syncope units: One solution to an expensive problem
These multidisciplinary teams function as part of EDs, observation or inpatient units. European studies suggest they may help shorten length of stay.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/11/yp.htm
15 Nov 2013
Guideline issued on management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction
The American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines released its 2013 guideline on managing ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) last week.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/01/09/3.htm
9 Jan 2013
COVID-19 prompts consideration of pre-ICU care
An expert calls for solutions to delays and boarding.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/before-the-icu.htm
15 Oct 2020
Two studies offer insight on using age, d-dimer, algorithms for diagnosing PE
For patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), a meta-analysis found that pretest probability-dependent d-dimer thresholds were the most efficient strategy, while a trial found that the YEARS rule with an age-adjusted d-dimer cutoff was noninferior to a conventional strategy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/12/15/1.htm
15 Dec 2021
Conservative airway strategy may improve outcomes in comatose patients with acute poisoning
Patients who were randomized to no intubation unless they met an emergency criterion did better on a composite end point of in-hospital death and length of ICU and hospital stay than those treated under routine practice, a French trial found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/06/conservative-airway-strategy-may-improve-outcomes-in-comatose-patients-with-acute-poisoning.htm
6 Dec 2023