Search results for "Delirium"
Altered mental status
The encephalopathic and intracranial disease processes causing acute alteration in mental status is discussed in the second of two columns on the topic.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/03/coding-altered-mental-status-part-2.htm
15 Mar 2017
Altered mental status
Altered mental status due to psychiatric causes is discussed in the first of two columns on the topic.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/02/coding-altered-mental-status-part-1.htm
15 Feb 2017
Hospital Servi-Sisyphus
It was that kind of morning: hypertensive patients who couldn't pay for their meds and little old ladies, sweet and otherwise, who kept on falling.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/11/free/newman.htm
15 Nov 2016
Beyond the M&M
Hospitals review every death to flag problems, jump-start quality improvement.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/09/morbidity-mortality-conference.htm
15 Sep 2016
Recent Research
Bleeding risk score, lower blood pressure targets in cerebral hemorrhage, mobility after discharge, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/09/recent-research.htm
15 Sep 2016
Get patients moving in, and out of, the hospital
Two 24-bed general medicine units at the Johns Hopkins Hospital tackled inpatient mobility.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/09/success-story-mobility.htm
15 Sep 2016
Psych teams
Psychiatric comanagement brings expert care to vulnerable patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/08/psychiatric-comanagement.htm
15 Aug 2016
An ear-ly intervention to reduce delirium
Providing earplugs in the ICU may be a low-cost way to reduce hospital noise and prevent arousal during sleep.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/06/success-story-reducing-delirium.htm
15 Jun 2016
Hospital mobility program led to better mobility after discharge, study shows
Mobility program participants received support from a trained research assistant, who helped them set daily goals and incrementally progress to full ambulation, as tolerated.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/06/08/4.htm
8 Jun 2016
Dexmedetomidine sped extubation of ventilated patients with agitation and delirium
The placebo-controlled trial included 74 adult patients from 15 ICUs in Australia and New Zealand who did not have advanced dementia or traumatic brain injury.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/04/20/2.htm
20 Apr 2016