Search results for "Vascular Access"
Review synthesizes advice to prevent bloodstream infections from vascular access devices
CMS is considering hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia prevention, including bloodstream infections that stem from medical devices, as a future focus of quality reporting, according to the authors of a new review.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/15/review-synthesizes-advice-to-prevent-bloodstream-infections-from-vascular-access-devices.htm
15 May 2024
SHM issues recommendations on ultrasound guidance for vascular access procedures
The 29 new recommendations from the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) cover preprocedure steps, procedure techniques, postprocedure care, and training.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/09/18/1.htm
18 Sep 2019
May 15, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/15/
Midline catheters may be safer than PICCs for short-term use
A retrospective cohort study found use of a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) for difficult vascular access or for IV antibiotic therapy for 30 days or less was associated with higher risk for a bloodstream infection or occlusion than a midline catheter.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/12/08/2.htm
8 Dec 2021
March 9, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/09/
PICCs frequently placed in hospital patients with chronic kidney disease
Despite recommendations cautioning against PICC use in chronic kidney disease or intensive care, 30.9% of ICU patients who got a PICC had an estimated glomerular filtration rate less than 45 mL/min/1.73 m2, a study in Michigan found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/06/05/1.htm
5 Jun 2019
Data breaches, infective endocarditis
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/03/in-the-news.htm
15 Mar 2020
Ask Dr. Pinson
Get answers to questions about obesity, ultrasound guidance, and other coding conundrums.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/07/coding-corner-qa.htm
15 Jul 2021
Recall of Huber needles due to risk of coring
Put words in our mouth
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/09/15/7.htm
15 Sep 2010
Infected femoral closure device after cardiac catheterization
A patient presented with cellulitis at a vascular access site 10 days after undergoing cardiac catheterization.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/09/free/brief-case-infected-femoral-closure-device.htm
9 Mar 2022