Search results for "Goals of Care"
Ventilation, telehospitalists, and more on COVID-19
This issue offers tools to fight the pandemic, as well as analysis of vitamin C for sepsis and articles on cardiomyopathy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 May 2020
COVID-19 recommendations, research focus on clinician health
Recent articles offered advice on avoiding overuse in medicine and viral spread, including during ventilation. A study found mood problems and fears among physicians treating COVID-19, while mental health experts offered some solutions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/06/03/2.htm
3 Jun 2020
How to help the hot spots: Nursing homes and COVID-19
ACP Hospitalist recently interviewed Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation, about the COVID-19 situation in nursing homes and how hospitalists can make it better.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/06/03/3.htm
3 Jun 2020
COVID-19 spurs hospital tech
Rapid advances have been made in virtual rounds, chatbots, machine learning, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/09/covid-19-spurs-hospital-tech.htm
15 Sep 2020
More data on risk factors for poor COVID-19 outcomes, mixed results from treatment trials
A risk calculator, genetic findings, and red blood cell distribution width helped predict severity of and death from COVID-19. Tocilizumab showed benefit, but a number of other treatments, including CPR, did not, according to recent research.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/30/1.htm
30 Sep 2020
Political conversations with patients
Questions about politics are inevitable in clinics and hospitals during this election season.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/political-conversations-with-patients.htm
15 Oct 2020
Goals of care
The family confirmed that she was indeed a full code because she did not want to die of COVID.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/11/goals-of-care.htm
15 Nov 2020
Pandemic perspectives–Part 3
The readers of ACP Hospitalist have written about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/11/pandemic-perspectives-part-3.htm
15 Nov 2020
The COVID Yogi
“I control bipolar with an hour of yoga every day at home. I will get through this if I focus.”
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/11/the-covid-yogi.htm
15 Nov 2020
Comfort measures only
I will never forget the 56-year-old woman who was admitted to our intermediate care unit with COVID-19 pneumonia.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/11/comfort-measures-only.htm
15 Nov 2020