Search results for "Neurology"
Recent Research
Lower-extremity revascularization in nursing home residents, guidance on contact precautions for hospital visitors, treatment in-hospital strokes versus community-onset strokes, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/07/recent-research.htm
15 Jul 2015
Treatment of post-thrombolysis hemorrhage fails to reduce mortality, hematoma growth
There was a suggestion of benefit from hemorrhage treatment, but receiving an endovascular neurointerventional procedure and having a higher hematoma volume were the factors significantly associated with in-hospital mortality.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/11/04/3.htm
4 Nov 2015
Cases from Maine Medical Center
Meningoencephalitis, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, tophaceous gout, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/11/brief-case-maine-medical-center.htm
15 Nov 2015
Stroke and TIA
A transient neurologic deficit lasting 24 hours or more, even when imaging studies are unremarkable, is a cerebrovascular accident, not TIA.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/coding-stroke-TIA.htm
15 Dec 2015
Recent Research
Macrolide antibiotics, central vs. peripheral thermometers, acute kidney injury risk factors in orthopedic patients, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/01/recent-research.htm
15 Jan 2016
Building new stroke systems
Now that endovascular therapy has been officially endorsed by experts, how should hospitals respond?
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/02/endovascular-therapy-stroke.htm
15 Feb 2016
Duration not always definitive in convulsive status epilepticus
Timelines can help but shouldn't always be followed to the letter.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/04/status-epilepticus.htm
15 Apr 2016
Wavy lines: EEGs in the hospital
Electroencephalograms in the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/06/expert-analysis-EEG.htm
15 Jun 2016
Alteplase treatment associated with slightly improved long-term survival after ischemic stroke
Patients randomized to alteplase in addition to standard care had a significantly higher mortality rate during the first 7 days after treatment, but a significantly lower risk of death between 8 days and 3 years after treatment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/07/27/4.htm
27 Jul 2016
Cases from Saint Louis University Hospital
Anaphylaxis to mammalian meat, rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, typhoid fever, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/09/brief-case.htm
15 Sep 2016