Search results for "Cardiac arrest"
Recommendations, trials don't find benefit from hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19
New guidance from ACP and recent trials do not support the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, and a pharmacokinetic analysis showed potential problems with lopinavir/ritonavir therapy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/05/20/1.htm
20 May 2020
Inhaler education, hospital mergers, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/in-the-news.htm
15 May 2020
Recent Research
Post-stroke depression risk, side effects from statins, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/10/rr.htm
15 Oct 2013
AHA releases scientific statement on managing PE, DVT
The American Heart Association last week issued a scientific statement on the management of massive and submassive pulmonary embolism, iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis, and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/03/30/1.htm
30 Mar 2011
Adding judgment and EKG to troponin better identified unstable angina, but not AMI
Researchers tested the hypothesis that adding additional information to a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin algorithm would improve diagnosis of ED patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/08/14/4.htm
14 Aug 2019
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
Manikins in training improve CPR compression depth
Researchers performed a prospective, cluster randomized trial of video-only training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for family members of inpatients with high-risk cardiac conditions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/10/19/4.htm
19 Oct 2016
Therapeutic hypothermia, HAI network, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/recent-research.htm
15 May 2020
In the News
Varied times to debrillation after in-hospital cardiac arrest, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/10/itn.htm
15 Oct 2009
Just don't do it
Leonard Feldman, MD, FACP, takes a look at non-evidence-based medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/08/conf01.htm
15 Aug 2013