Search results for "Cardiac arrest"
AHA updates guidelines on resuscitation of patients with cardiac arrest
A focused update from the American Heart Association (AHA) offers new recommendations on the use of advanced airways, vasopressors, and extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation during cardiac arrest.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/11/20/1.htm
20 Nov 2019
STEMI outcomes similar whether patients present on or off hours, French study finds
No between-group difference was seen in median time from symptoms to first medical contact or from first medical contact to sheath insertion, rate of radial access for catheterization, or in-hospital and one-year mortality.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/11/06/4.htm
6 Nov 2019
Moderate hypothermia improved neurologic outcomes after cardiac arrest with nonshockable rhythm
Mortality was similar whether patients were randomized to a target temperature of 33 °C or 37 °C, but those in the former group were more likely to have a favorable Cerebral Performance Category score at 90 days.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/10/09/4.htm
9 Oct 2019
White patients had better outcomes after targeted temperature management than nonwhite patients
Of 367 patients who underwent targeted temperature management in the ICU after cardiac arrest, 34.4% of white patients and 21.7% of nonwhite patients had a good outcome, defined as a Cerebral Performance Category score of 1 or 2.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/10/02/3.htm
2 Oct 2019
Score may help inform DNR discussions after in-hospital cardiac arrest
Patients whose Good Outcome Following Attempted Resuscitation (GO-FAR) score at hospital admission is 14 or above can be told that they have a very low likelihood of surviving an in-hospital cardiac arrest without some neurologic impairment, study authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/09/18/4.htm
18 Sep 2019
Adding judgment and EKG to troponin better identified unstable angina, but not AMI
Researchers tested the hypothesis that adding additional information to a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin algorithm would improve diagnosis of ED patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/08/14/4.htm
14 Aug 2019
New rules for predicting recovery after cardiac arrest
Therapeutic hypothermia has changed the field of neurology after cardiac arrest.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/07/new-rules-for-predicting-recovery-after-cardiac-arrest.htm
15 Jul 2019
Online ratings, sleep, and more
Meet us on Twitter to discuss online ratings of hospitals and hospitalists.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/07/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Jul 2019
July issue online and in the mail
This issue's main story looks at online ratings of physicians. A related Twitter chat will be held on Wed., July 31, at 4 p.m. ET.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/10/5.htm
10 Jul 2019
Reducing chest X-rays, telemetry
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/06/in-the-news.htm
15 Jun 2019