Search results for "Heart Failure"
February 8, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/08/
March 23, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/23/
Test yourself: Acute coronary syndromes
A 53-year-old obese man is admitted to the hospital with the acute coronary syndrome... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/02/test-yourself.htm
15 Feb 2007
Rating the rankings: How ‘top hospital’ lists define quality
It's the mid-1980s. You're an accountant, not a doctor, and you've just been told that your mother has a rare type of cancer. You respect and trust her physician-but this is your mother, and she needs serious medicine. How do you find the very best possible treatment?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/04/top-hosp.htm
15 Apr 2007
Venous thromboembolism in the elderly
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is manifested clinically by deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). DVT, usually of the lower extremity, nearly always precedes PE.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/04/elderly.htm
15 Apr 2007
Treating chest pain in 90 minutes or less
When a physician from a small town in Wyoming calls LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City about transferring a patient with chest pain, he'll probably talk to Dean A. Mayer, ACP Member.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/04/chest-pain.htm
15 Apr 2007
Assessing unhealthy alcohol use in hospitalized patients
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) estimates that 3 in 10 Americans drink enough to put them at risk for health problems.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/04/unhealthy-drinkers.htm
15 Apr 2007
Stents, cholesterol and heart drugs dominate cardiology conference talks
The appropriate use of stents, the efficacy of cholesterol drugs and the safety of heart failure medication were hot topics at the American College of Cardiology's (ACC) 56th Annual Scientific Session, held in New Orleans in March. An unusual number of failed trials were unveiled at the conference.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/05/card-conf.htm
15 May 2007
Test yourself: Anticoagulant therapy
A 46-year-old woman with no history of pregnancy is evaluated for follow-up monitoring of pulmonary emboli that developed 13 months ago... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/05/anti-coag.htm
15 May 2007
Journal watch: recent studies of note
Recent studies about hydrocortisone, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/journal-watch.htm
15 Jun 2007