Search results for "Opioids"
Inhaler education, hospital mergers, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/in-the-news.htm
15 May 2020
June issue online and in the mail
This issue offers conference coverage from Internal Medicine Meeting 2019, held in Philadelphia in April.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/06/12/5.htm
12 Jun 2019
Study identifies potential predictors of hospital-onset C. difficile infection
In patients colonized with Clostridioides difficile, risk factors for infection included longer length of stay, exposure to multiple classes of antibiotics, use of opioids, and cirrhosis, whereas use of laxatives was associated with a lower risk.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/17/1.htm
17 Jul 2019
When your patient is on dialysis
A nephrologist ran down the initial steps hospitalists should take after admitting a long-term dialysis patient during a lecture at Internal Medicine Meeting 2022.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/05/11/when-your-patient-is-on-dialysis.htm
11 May 2022
Mortality in year after overdose lower with methadone or buprenorphine treatment
About 30% of patients who survived an opioid overdose in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2014 received medications for opioid use disorder in the subsequent 12 months, most commonly buprenorphine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/06/20/4.htm
20 Jun 2018
September issue online and in the mail
This month's issue focuses on recent shortages of IV opioids and saline, door-to-diuretic time, and in-hospital cardiac arrest.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/09/12/5.htm
12 Sep 2018
June issue online and in the mail
This month's issue of ACP Hospitalist covers news from Hospital Medicine 2018, including articles about physician burnout, opioids, COPD, pressure ulcers, and technological advances.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/06/13/5.htm
13 Jun 2018
Evidence lacking on efficacy of prescription drug monitoring programs
Recent articles on substance use highlighted the limitations of prescription drug monitoring programs, rise of synthetic opioids in overdose deaths, and risk of vitamin K-dependent antagonist coagulopathy from synthetic cannabinoids.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/09/4.htm
9 May 2018
For diagnosing withdrawal, the eyes have it
Recognizing and treating opioid dependence inside the hospital, and beyond.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/07/opioid.htm
15 Jul 2010
Selecting a sickle cell therapy
There are four approved drugs with differing effects and costs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/06/selecting-a-sickle-cell-therapy.htm
15 Jun 2021