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MKSAP quiz on intensive care

This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 18) that take place in the ICU.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/02/mksap-quiz-on-intensive-care.htm
15 Feb 2019

No difference found for moderate vs. mild hypothermia for comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

There may not be a single, optimal target temperature for all patients with cardiac arrest, noted the authors of a trial that compared target temperatures of 31 °C and 34 °C. The effects of therapeutic hypothermia could be modulated by several clinical variables, they suggested.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/10/27/4.htm
27 Oct 2021

Intermediate care unit helped surgical, COVID-19 patients

An intermediate care unit with a maximum census of six created over 1,000 available ICU bed-days over 12 months.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/14/free/intermediate-care-unit-helped-surgical-covid-19-patients.htm
14 Feb 2024

Guideline addresses viral testing in patients with community-acquired pneumonia

The new American Thoracic Society guideline opposes routine use of nucleic acid-based testing for noninfluenza viral pathogens in outpatients with community-acquired pneumonia but identifies some uses for the tests in inpatients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/12/4.htm
12 May 2021

Drug shortages drag on

Almost all hospital pharmacists reported facing drug shortages in a recent survey, but there are some available solutions, one expert says.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/10/04/free/drug-shortages-drag-on.htm
4 Oct 2023

Survival of critical illness in ICU linked to subsequent suicide, self-harm

Compared to hospital survivors who never required ICU admission, those who were discharged from an ICU had a higher risk of suicide and self-harm in a Canadian study. Risk factors included previous psychiatric diagnoses and use of life-support interventions in the ICU.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/12/2.htm
12 May 2021

Clusters of deterioration

When one patient goes from the ward to the ICU, others are more likely to follow, and researchers are trying to figure out why.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/08/09/clusters-of-deterioration.htm
9 Aug 2023

Long-term beta-blocker therapy associated with improved outcomes in sepsis

An observational cohort study in Israel found that patients hospitalized with sepsis on general medicine wards had better 30-day survival if they had been taking beta-blockers for at least one year.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/01/27/2.htm
27 Jan 2021

August 2007

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/

Physician resuscitation champions associated with higher rates of surviving in-hospital cardiac arrest

In a survey study, hospitals that had a very active physician champion of Get With the Guidelines—Resuscitation were four times more likely to be in a higher survival quintile than participating hospitals that did not.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/24/4.htm
24 Feb 2021

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