Search results for "Acute MI"
Guideline-based therapy linked to improved acute MI survival in oldest old
Increased use of guideline-based therapy appeared to improve survival after acute myocardial infarction (MI) in patients 85 years of age and older, a new study has found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/07/17/2.htm
17 Jul 2013
In the News
Myocardial infarction in women, managing candidiasis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/04/in-the-news.htm
15 Apr 2016
Bundled payments, pneumonia score
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/12/in-the-news.htm
15 Dec 2018
Medication adherence better with low-molecular-weight heparin than unfractionated heparin
Inpatients with acute MI face risk of hospital-acquired anemia
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/06/16/2.htm
16 Jun 2010
Top 10 medical myths, busted
Hospitalists should be a little more tentative about these tenets.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/06/im-top-10-medical-myths-busted.htm
15 Jun 2019
Diagnoses of Medicare ICU patients have shifted
Cardiovascular disease remains the top disease category of primary diagnoses, but it declined yearly from 1996 to 2010, while infection-related diagnoses, especially sepsis, rose.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/23/2.htm
23 Mar 2016
Fecal transplants, contrast, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/06/recent-research.htm
15 Jun 2020
30-day readmissions after MI declined over past decade
Myocardial infarction was the cause of only 8% of the readmissions, while 38% of them were for a noncardiovascular cause. Over the whole period, 36% of 30-day readmissions occurred within a week of discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/11/11/2.htm
11 Nov 2015
Warfarin associated with better one-year outcomes for acute MI, afib patients with CKD
Giving warfarin to patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) and atrial fibrillation who have kidney disease was associated with better one-year outcomes than not giving warfarin, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2014/03/12/4.htm
12 Mar 2014
Journal watch: Recent studies of note
Kidney decline and mortality in acute severe hypertension, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/12/jw.htm
15 Dec 2010