Search results for "Imaging"
April 17, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/17/
High-sensitivity troponin I with or without advanced cardiac imaging may help assess risk in patients who present with chest pain
Low plasma troponin concentrations could identify two-thirds of patients who could be safely discharged, reducing hospital admissions and benefitting both patients and health care clinicians, the authors of 1 study concluded.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/10/21/1.htm
21 Oct 2015
New sickle cell therapies approved
The FDA also warned about eye infections with over-the-counter drops and skin reactions to antiseizure medications, among other actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/03/new-sickle-cell-therapies-approved.htm
3 Jan 2024
ACC/ACR release recommendations on imaging in heart failure
Recommendations on the appropriate use of imaging in heart failure patients were released by the American College of Radiology and the American College of Cardiology Foundation last week.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/05/01/1.htm
1 May 2013
Recognize, respond to restrictive eating disorders
Hiding food, exercising discreetly, and manipulating feeding tubes are just a few behaviors hospitalists may have to address.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/20/recognize-respond-to-restrictive-eating-disorders.htm
20 Mar 2024
Spinal epidural abscess
A patient presented with acute-on-chronic lumbosacral back pain and new-onset urinary incontinence.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/11/01/free/spinal-epidural-abscess.htm
1 Nov 2023
Cardiac societies release guideline on evaluation, diagnosis of chest pain
The recommendations from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, with support from other societies, provide algorithms for assessing and diagnosing chest pain in adults and offer 10 take-home points, including on use of testing and imaging.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/11/10/3.htm
10 Nov 2021
Pinpoint PE in high-risk patients with syncope
The evidence on the prevalence of pulmonary embolism (PE) among patients with syncope has been mixed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/12/pinpoint-pe-in-syncope.htm
15 Dec 2018
In the News
Radiation safety, VTE hospitalization risk, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/07/itn.htm
15 Jul 2012
LTAC use, med adherence after MI, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/09/recent-research.htm
15 Sep 2018