Search results for "Poisoning"
AHA updates guidance for treating life-threatening poisonings
A new focused update from the American Heart Association (AHA) offered 10 take-home messages on management of cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, and refractory shock due to poisoning.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/09/27/aha-updates-guidance-for-treating-life-threatening-poisonings.htm
27 Sep 2023
Hospitalizations for prescription drug poisoning increasing
Magnetic resonance angiography shouldn't be standard practice for diagnosing PE
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/04/14/2.htm
14 Apr 2010
September 27, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/09/27/
Shorter treatment with acetylcysteine for acetaminophen poisoning may have advantages
Reducing the duration of acetylcysteine treatment for acetaminophen poisoning lowered the occurrence of vomiting and anaphylactoid reactions, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/12/11/2.htm
11 Dec 2013
Conservative airway strategy may improve outcomes in comatose patients with acute poisoning
Patients who were randomized to no intubation unless they met an emergency criterion did better on a composite end point of in-hospital death and length of ICU and hospital stay than those treated under routine practice, a French trial found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/06/conservative-airway-strategy-may-improve-outcomes-in-comatose-patients-with-acute-poisoning.htm
6 Dec 2023
December 6, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/06/
January 2010
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/01/
Government agencies issue guidance on preparing for nerve agent exposures
The document, “Nerve Agent Information for Emergency Medical Services and Hospitals,” reviews protocols for recognizing, treating, and protecting oneself from nerve agent exposures.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/08/29/4.htm
29 Aug 2018
Alcohol use disorders
There are 11 different clinical criteria for alcohol use disorder and three classifications of severity under the DSM-5.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/08/alcohol-use-disorders.htm
8 Nov 2023
Hospitalizations, heart valve surgeries for drug-associated infective endocarditis increase
From 2007 to 2017, annual hospitalizations for drug use-associated infective endocarditis increased by about 12-fold in one state, with opioids implicated in nearly two-thirds of cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/12/05/2.htm
5 Dec 2018