Search results for "Sleep"
Talking about heart failure
Patients with heart failure often have a hard time wrapping their heads around it. Hospitalists can do a lot to improve communication and education during hospitalization.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/24/talking-about-heart-failure.htm
24 Aug 2022
A different kind of business card
Hospitalist information cards increased patient satisfaction, one program found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/17/a-different-kind-of-business-card.htm
17 Aug 2022
SHM selected new Choosing Wisely recommendations with patient input
The latest advice from the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) on avoiding low-value care includes recommendations against waking patients at night for routine care and against routinely prescribing venous thromboembolism prophylaxis to all inpatients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/15/free/shm-selected-new-choosing-wisely-recommendations-with-patient-input.htm
15 Jun 2022
It takes a team to prevent falls
Hospitalists play a key role in making their hospitals' fall prevention efforts more effective and encouraging patient mobility, experts say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/01/it-takes-a-team-to-prevent-falls.htm
1 Jun 2022
A different score and factor to consider before surgery
Hospitalists should think beyond the Revised Cardiac Risk Index when providing preoperative assessments, attendees at Internal Medicine Meeting 2022 learned.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/05/04/a-different-score-and-factor-to-consider-before-surgery.htm
4 May 2022
Ease up on antipsychotics
Antipsychotics started for an episode of agitation in the ICU are often continued through hospitalization and even after discharge, posing serious health risks to patients, experts say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/04/06/free/ease-up-on-antipsychotics.htm
6 Apr 2022
Why perioperative anaphylaxis is like paella
An expert speaker at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology 2022 Annual Meeting drew parallels between perioperative anaphylaxis and the Spanish dish, reviewing differential diagnoses, causal agents, and useful labs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/23/why-perioperative-anaphylaxis-is-like-paella.htm
23 Mar 2022
Dementia
Distinguishing among the causes of dementia—including Alzheimer and Parkinson disease—is a clinical and coding imperative.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/09/coding-corner-dementia.htm
9 Feb 2022
Sepsis guidelines review old questions, tackle new ones
The lead author of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign's latest guideline update highlighted the most important changes for hospitalists to know, including recommendations on the use of fluid and vasopressors.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/01/19/sepsis-experts-review-old-questions-tackle-new-ones.htm
19 Jan 2022
Clinical decision support tool reduced nighttime vital checks but not delirium
The tool used real-time patient data and a trained prediction algorithm to notify the hospitalist if the patient had a high likelihood of nighttime vital sign measurements within reference ranges.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/01/12/clinical-decision-support-tool-reduced-nighttime-vital-checks-but-not-delirium.htm
12 Jan 2022