Search results for "Cardiology"
Improving door-to-balloon time for acute MI
The decisions made by hospital staff in the first few minutes following an acute myocardial infarction (MI) often determine whether a patient lives or dies.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/02/acute-mi.htm
15 Feb 2007
Treating chest pain in 90 minutes or less
When a physician from a small town in Wyoming calls LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City about transferring a patient with chest pain, he'll probably talk to Dean A. Mayer, ACP Member.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/04/chest-pain.htm
15 Apr 2007
Rating the rankings: How ‘top hospital’ lists define quality
It's the mid-1980s. You're an accountant, not a doctor, and you've just been told that your mother has a rare type of cancer. You respect and trust her physician-but this is your mother, and she needs serious medicine. How do you find the very best possible treatment?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/04/top-hosp.htm
15 Apr 2007
Stents, cholesterol and heart drugs dominate cardiology conference talks
The appropriate use of stents, the efficacy of cholesterol drugs and the safety of heart failure medication were hot topics at the American College of Cardiology's (ACC) 56th Annual Scientific Session, held in New Orleans in March. An unusual number of failed trials were unveiled at the conference.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/05/card-conf.htm
15 May 2007
Making sense of stents
Hospitalists are sorting through new evidence that patients who get drug-eluting stents are at risk for potentially deadly stent thrombosis for months, even years, after the devices are implanted. That's added new layers to medical and surgical decision making and put more pressure on hospitalists to facilitate communication among doctors and patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/05/best-practices.htm
15 May 2007
Journal watch: recent studies of note
Recent studies about hydrocortisone, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/06/journal-watch.htm
15 Jun 2007
Journal watch: recent studies of note
Recent studies about methylprednisolone, fenoldopam, stroke patients, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/07/journal-watch.htm
15 Jul 2007
Changes afoot at physician-owned specialty hospitals
When Oklahoma Heart Hospital opened in August 2002 in Oklahoma City, it didn't take long for nearby community hospital Baptist Medical Center to realize it needed to make some changes to offset the loss of patients. But new government and state regulations will mean changes in the specialty hospital workplace in the coming months and years.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/cover-story.htm
15 Aug 2007
Journal watch: recent studies of note
Recent studies about postoperative VTE risk, preoperative hematocrit, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/08/journal-watch.htm
15 Aug 2007
Internal medicine unites to improve transitions of care
Experts from all areas of health care met in Philadelphia in July to discuss ways to improve transitions of care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/im-unites.htm
15 Oct 2007