Search results for "Perioperative care"
MKSAP quiz on perioperative care
These cases and commentary, which address perioperative care, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP16).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/01/ty.htm
15 Jan 2013
Similar outcomes in patients taking aspirin, placebo before coronary artery surgery
The primary outcome of the study was a composite of death and thrombotic complications within 30 days of surgery, but researchers also looked at rates of major hemorrhage leading to reoperation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/02/3.htm
2 Mar 2016
Periop in a pandemic
Without data or guidelines on when and whether to perform surgery on the many patients who have had COVID-19 infections after vaccination, hospitals and hospitalists are developing their own plans and protocols.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/23/free/periop-in-a-pandemic.htm
23 Mar 2022
November 22, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/22/
New guidelines on perioperative evaluation and management
Cardiology experts released new guidelines on perioperative care of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery last week.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/08/06/1.htm
6 Aug 2014
November 9, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/09/
High-dose atorvastatin may not reduce AKI after cardiac surgery
The study's results do not support the initiation of statin therapy to prevent acute kidney injury following cardiac surgery but do provide evidence that continuing perioperative statin therapy is safe, said an accompanying editorial.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/09/4.htm
9 Mar 2016
March 1, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/01/
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/
Factor frailty into preop assessment
Frailty should be assessed along with baseline cognition, risk for delirium, functional status, nutritional status, and, in particular, patients' treatment goals and expectations, an expert said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/04/25/1.htm
25 Apr 2018