August 2008

Delivery (of a shock) in two minutes or less

Recent research has found that hospitalized patients with ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia don't always receive defibrillation within the recommended window, and that the delay has a detrimental effect on outcomes and survival. Cardiologists and other experts trying to improve these times say that hospitalists are in the perfect spot to take charge of the problem and lead improvement efforts.

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor

A study published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine had some sobering news for hospitals.

Letters to the Editor

Deciding about CPR: Readers respond

Deciding about CPR: Readers respond.

In the News

Quality of health care affected by race and geography.

Coding corner

Billing in the ED and transitional care units.

Wiping out falls

Systemic interventions help reduce patient risk.

The hospitalist teacher

Bedside rounding combines medical education and patient care.

Khat use in the U.S.

A public health perspective.

Researcher aims to assess beta-blocker use in patients with pacemakers

Researcher aims to assess beta-blocker use in patients with pacemakers.

Conference Coverage

Brazil's first hospital medicine congress offers promise, challenges

Brazil's first hospital medicine congress offers promise, challenges.

Warnings on antipsychotics, becaplermin

Warnings on antipsychotics, becaplermin.

Expert Analysis

Expert analysis: Lewy body dementia

Lewy body dementia.

Test yourself: Sepsis

Sepsis.

Journal watch: Recent studies of note

Recent studies about improving CPR, post-stroke depression treatment, and other topics.