Search results for "Guidelines"
An academic time crunch
Academic hospitalists discuss how to find time for education and research as the clinical workload keeps growing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/10/free/an-academic-time-crunch.htm
10 Jan 2024
Guideline released on stopping mechanical ventilation in critically ill adults
The goal of the guideline from the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Thoracic Society is to help clinicians determine when patients with acute respiratory failure can breathe on their own, as well as provide clinical advice that may increase chances for successful extubation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/11/02/2.htm
2 Nov 2016
IDSA and ATS release new guidelines for treating hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia
The new recommendations remove the concept of health care-associated pneumonia from these HAP/VAP guidelines and recommend that individual hospitals generate antibiograms to help clinicians choose the optimal antibiotics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/07/27/2.htm
27 Jul 2016
March 2013
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/03/
IDSA releases new guidelines for treatment of patients with aspergillosis
The recommendations update the 2008 guidelines with increased evidence for antifungal therapies and diagnostic tests.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/07/13/3.htm
13 Jul 2016
January 2020
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/01/
Most patients on mechanical ventilation received daily chest X-rays, despite guideline changes
The hospital in which patients received mechanical ventilation was the strongest predictor of whether they received daily X-rays, even after adjusting for patient variables.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/08/15/1.htm
15 Aug 2018
January 19, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/01/19/
Guideline released on treatment of status epilepticus
The guideline committee analyzed data on efficacy, tolerability, and safety of anticonvulsant treatment in both adults and children to propose recommendations and a treatment algorithm.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/02/24/2.htm
24 Feb 2016
October 2010
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/10/