Search results for "Intensive care"
Making room for more patients
Peter Viccellio, MD, still remembers the day, month and year when he had an epiphany that changed his hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/02/open-beds.htm
15 Feb 2007
Hospitals put rapid response systems into play
When Kendra K. Kay, ACP Member, joined Howard County General Hospital in Columbia, Md., as the medical director of its hospitalist program, she didn't realize that she and the rest of her hospitalist team were just what the staff developing a rapid response system were waiting for.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/03/rr.htm
15 Mar 2007
Hospital medicine update
The reimbursement spotlight is shifting to pay-for-performance, and this year's moderators for the update in hospital medicine at Internal Medicine 2007 in San Diego discussed its impact on physicians.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/med-update.htm
15 Jun 2007
Acute ventilatory failure
A 63-year-old woman is evaluated in the emergency department for a three-day history of increasing dyspnea... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/ventil-failure.htm
15 Jun 2007
More hospitals fight MRSA with universal screening
Some experts believe that screening and isolating patients with MRSA is the best way to control the infection. But are “search and destroy” methods the right call?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/07/mrsa.htm
15 Jul 2007
Journal watch: recent studies of note
Recent studies about methylprednisolone, fenoldopam, stroke patients, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/07/journal-watch.htm
15 Jul 2007
Deciding when patients can't
End-of-life considerations for incapacitated patients without surrogates.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/end-of-life.htm
15 Aug 2007
Test yourself: Palliative care
A 72-year-old, 90-kg (198-lb) woman who lives in an assisted living facility is evaluated after 10 days in the intensive care unit. She was admitted with severe urosepsis... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/test-yourself.htm
15 Aug 2007
Journal watch: recent studies of note
Recent studies about postoperative VTE risk, preoperative hematocrit, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/journal-watch.htm
15 Aug 2007
Experts debate glucose control in the ICU
Studies have shown that controlling blood glucose closely and carefully improves survival and morbidity among intensive care patients, but the ideal target remains controversial.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/09/glucose.htm
15 Sep 2007