Search results for "Procedures"
Pocket-sized procedures
Ultrasound images, formerly only available from machines weighing hundreds of pounds and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, can now be viewed on devices significantly smaller in both size and price.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/ultrasounds.htm
15 May 2011
New COVID-19 boosters, biosimilar for MS OK’ed
The FDA approved updated COVID-19 vaccines and the first-ever biosimilar for multiple sclerosis (MS), among other recent actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/04/new-covid-19-boosters-biosimilar-for-ms-oked.htm
4 Oct 2023
Adding up adverse events
Patient safety experts talk about the latest data and what hospitalists can do to improve them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/07/adding-up-adverse-events.htm
7 Jun 2023
Hospital pricing often unclear despite transparency requirements
A cross-sectional study of U.S. hospitals found differences in cash prices posted online for vaginal childbirth and brain MRI versus prices obtained via telephone calls by secret shoppers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/09/27/hospital-pricing-often-unclear-despite-transparency-requirements.htm
27 Sep 2023
FDA provides info on stimulant shortage
Also, a sterilizer for 3D-printed medical devices, a drug for postpartum depression, and an RSV vaccine for pregnant patients were approved, among other recent FDA actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/08/30/fda-provides-info-on-stimulant-shortage.htm
30 Aug 2023
Surrogate decisions for incarcerated hospital patients often handled improperly
Prison employees were involved in more than half of the decisions for patients who lacked decision-making capacity while hospitalized from a prison, according to an analysis of 20 years of records from one academic medical center.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/13/surrogate-decisions-for-incarcerated-hospital-patients-often-handled-improperly.htm
13 Dec 2023
Private equity takeovers linked with more in-hospital adverse events in Medicare patients
Rates of falls and central-line bloodstream infections increased in hospitals after they were acquired by private equity firms, despite these hospitals having a younger, higher-income patient cohort.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/03/private-equity-takeovers-linked-with-more-in-hospital-adverse-events-in-medicare-patients.htm
3 Jan 2024
Adding vancomycin to cefazolin didn't reduce infections among arthroplasty patients
Cefazolin plus vancomycin did not lead to lower surgical-site infection rates compared with cefazolin plus placebo in patients getting knee, hip, or shoulder replacement surgery, a randomized trial in Australia found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/25/free/adding-vancomycin-to-cefazolin-didnt-reduce-infections-among-arthroplasty-patients.htm
25 Oct 2023
The problem with pulse ox
Research has long indicated that pulse oximeters can overestimate oxygen saturation in patients with darker skin, but experts are now trying raise awareness of the problem.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/29/free/the-problem-with-pulse-ox.htm
29 Jun 2022
Investigating inpatient hypertension
Medication is often not the best solution for elevated blood pressure in the hospital, an expert explained at Internal Medicine Meeting 2023.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/03/investigating-inpatient-hypertension.htm
3 May 2023