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THE HAZARDS OF INVASIVE ARTERIALPRESSURE MONITORINGBy Lisa Kirkland, FACP. In the intensive care unit oroperating room, continuousreadout of blood pressure is oftenrequired, usually to monitor forchanges in stability or the effectsof
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/acph-200911-tech2.pdf
29 Oct 2009
acp-hosp0911:acp-hosp0911
THE HAZARDS OF INVASIVE ARTERIALPRESSURE MONITORINGBy Lisa Kirkland, FACP. In the intensive care unit oroperating room, continuousreadout of blood pressure is oftenrequired, usually to monitor forchanges in stability or the effectsof
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/acph-200911-tech1.pdf
29 Oct 2009
Homemade computer program improves glucose control
The Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center in Charleston, S.C., developed a nurse-driven Web-based insulin infusion protocol to manage blood glucose in the intensive care unit, as well as in the rest of the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/success.htm
15 Nov 2009
A deviant approach to hospital challenges
Positive deviance is a bottom-up, rather than top-down, approach to solving seemingly intractable problems in an institution or a community. It's based on the observation that certain individuals or groups (positive deviants) have found better solutions to these problems than their peers have.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/positive.htm
15 Nov 2009
Letter from the Editor
This issue features the results of our second annual Top Hospitalists competition. The 10 hospitalists in our cover feature, chosen by our editorial advisory board, are a varied group of professionals working in different ways to make the field of hospital medicine better. You may recognize some of the names and faces of our Top Ten, but we also hope that some will be new to you.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/lfe.htm
15 Nov 2009
The hazards of invasive arterial pressure monitoring
Our columnist outlines 10 possible sources of error.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/tech.htm
15 Nov 2009
Fight the noise
We all know the difficulty in functioning within a noisy hospital. But in hospitals we don't always have the option of suggesting that we move our discussion to a quiet coffee shop instead. Noise pollution in hospitals is an issue that confronts us all as hospital workers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/newman.htm
15 Nov 2009
acp-hosp0912sup:acp-hosp0805sup
As for what methods can be used to manage hyperglycemiain the hospital, the use of intravenous insulin infusions is recom-mended to control hyperglycemia in the intensive care setting.5. ... SICU = surgical intensive care unit; VISEP = Efficacy ofVolume Substitution and Insulin Therapy in Severe Sepsis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/acph-200912-hyperglycemia.pdf
23 Nov 2009
In the News
Mortality disparities after in-hospital cardiac arrest, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/12/itn.htm
15 Dec 2009
Future of antibiotics worries infectious disease experts
At the Infectious Diseases Society of America meeting last fall, one of the issues that most riled the experts was antibiotics, specifically the lack of them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/01/idsa.htm
15 Jan 2010