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July 2018

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/

Antipsychotics didn't reduce duration of delirium and coma in ICU patients

Patients who received IV boluses of haloperidol or ziprasidone for delirium also had similar 30-day and 90-day survival, lengths of stay, and extrapyramidal symptoms as those given placebo.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/10/31/1.htm
31 Oct 2018

American Heart Association issues scientific statement on cardiogenic shock in older adults

The statement provides suggestions for clinical practice, highlighting the crucial role of individualized risk assessment, an interdisciplinary approach, and patient-centered decision making in the management of cardiogenic shock among older adults.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/06/american-heart-association-issues-scientific-statement-on-cardiogenic-shock-in-older-adults.htm
6 Mar 2024

Program with family reduced postoperative delirium, functional decline in older patients

The success of a tailored, family-involved program that targeted delirium risk factors in Chinese patients after noncardiac surgery shows that U.S. hospitals could learn from cultures that more closely involve families in care, according to an editorial accompanying the study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/10/30/2.htm
30 Oct 2019

An app for delirium

An app, which is now available for free download, enabled nursing assistants, nurses, and hospitalists to screen elderly inpatients for delirium in about a minute.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/30/an-app-for-delirium.htm
30 Mar 2022

Flexible visitation, ICU diaries have little effect on delirium, PTSD

Allowing ICU visits for up to 12 hours per day did not affect delirium rates versus 4.5 hours or less per day, and ICU diaries completed by family members and clinicians didn't reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) compared with usual care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/24/4.htm
24 Jul 2019

June 2013

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/06/

Earplugs in ICU patients associated with decreased delirium risk

The systematic review included studies that observed earplugs as an isolated intervention, bundled the earplugs with eye shades, and looked at earplugs, eye shades, and additional sleep noise abatement strategies.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/02/2.htm
2 Mar 2016

November 2011

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/11/

New prediction rule may help detect delirium at hospital admission

Researchers used modeling to identify four potential risk factors (cognitive impairment, infection, sodium level, and age of 80 years or older) and created a consolidated prediction rule.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/08/29/2.htm
29 Aug 2018

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