Search results for "Delirium"
Lots to learn about long-term care
A new curriculum helped hospitalists moving into postacute care fill gaps in their knowledge base.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/28/lots-to-learn-about-long-term-care.htm
28 Feb 2024
Working up inpatient psychosis
Ask the right questions and know the common differentials to speed your diagnosis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/12/working-up-inpatient-psychosis.htm
15 Dec 2018
Alcohol use disorders
Learn the ICD-10-CM terminology and instructions and DSM-5 definitions needed to document alcohol use disorder.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/01/coding-alcohol-use-disorders-part-1.htm
15 Jan 2018
Letter from the Editor
This month's issue discusses quick screening tools for delirium, management of patients after opioid overdose, overuse of proton-pump inhibitors, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/03/lfe.htm
15 Mar 2016
New risk score appears valid for predicting mortality in ED patients with acute heart failure
Use of the MEESSI-AHF score could improve patient and economic outcomes by identifying high-risk patients who can benefit from inpatient therapy and triaging low-risk patients who can be safely discharged from the ED, study authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/30/1.htm
30 Jan 2019
Inpatient exercise program reversed functional decline among hospitalized elderly
One Spanish hospital implemented a twice-daily individualized moderate-intensity program with resistance, balance, and walking exercises for patients ages 75 years and older.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/11/21/1.htm
21 Nov 2018
Prophylactic haloperidol lowers incidence of postop delirium for some patients
Prophylactic haloperidol reduced the incidence of postoperative delirium in elderly patients admitted to the intensive care unit after noncardiac surgery, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/02/29/4.htm
29 Feb 2012
Recent Research
Nonprofit versus for-profit hospitals, corticosteroids in septic shock, pretreatment with P2Y12 inhibitors, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/02/rr.htm
15 Feb 2015
MKSAP quiz on mechanical ventilation
This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 18) on mechanical ventilation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/mksap-quiz-on-mechanical-ventilation.htm
15 May 2020
March 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/03/