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Strokes in COVID-19
Learn what experts and the evidence have found so far.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/08/strokes-in-covid-19.htm
15 Aug 2020
Research on strokes and readmissions in COVID-19, updated guidance from NIH and SSC
One study showed that strokes were rare in COVID-19 patients, while another didn't find any connection between fever or biomarkers before discharge and readmissions. The NIH and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) updated their COVID-19 critical care recommendations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/10/1.htm
10 Feb 2021
November 2007
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/
CHA2DS2-VASc modestly predicts ischemic stroke, thromboembolism, death in heart failure patients
The observation that the risk factors included in the score are particularly significant among heart failure patients without atrial fibrillation is an important result, study authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/09/02/4.htm
2 Sep 2015
April 2014
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/04/
First medication for severe frostbite approved
The FDA also warned about smartwatches claiming to measure blood sugar without piercing the skin, among other recent actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/06/first-medication-for-severe-frostbite-approved.htm
6 Mar 2024
Thrombolysis use for acute ischemic stroke doubled in four-year period
Approximately 3.4% to 5.2% of acute ischemic stroke patients received thrombolytics in 2009—about double the 2005 treatment rate, a new analysis found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/06/15/2.htm
15 Jun 2011
February 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/02/
New risk score for in-hospital pneumonia after acute ischemic stroke
Researchers have developed a 34-point risk score to predict in-hospital pneumonia after acute ischemic stroke that appears to have better discrimination than older scores.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/03/20/3.htm
20 Mar 2013
March 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/03/