Search results for "Critical care"
Suctioning frequency, high-flow oxygen can determine when to decannulate tracheostomy
A randomized trial in Spanish ICUs found that patients whose readiness for decannulation was determined by frequency of suctioning instead of a 24-hour capping trial had less time to decannulation and shorter length of stay.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/16/3.htm
16 Sep 2020
November 2021
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/11/
May issue online and in the mail
This issue focuses mainly on tools to combat COVID-19, including ventilation management, telemedicine, and palliative care. Other articles address Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and vitamin C for sepsis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/05/13/6.htm
13 May 2020
April 2008
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/04/
Palliative care for a pandemic
In a recent interview, Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, described how palliative care expertise and resources are, and can be, applied to the current crisis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/08/3.htm
8 Apr 2020
New guideline on treating critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency
The guideline from the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine is an update to consensus statements on the topic published in 2008.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/10/04/2.htm
4 Oct 2017
August 30, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/08/30/
February 8, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/08/
Vitamin E acetate linked to vaping-associated lung injury
The total number of reported vaping-associated lung injury cases mounted to 2,172, the CDC found vitamin E acetate in biologic samples for the first time, and authors of an observational study of vaping-related illness emphasized that patients may present with flu-like and abdominal symptoms.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/11/20/3.htm
20 Nov 2019
January 19, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/01/19/