Search results for "Procedures"
October 26, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/10/26/
September 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/09/
Buprenorphine often discontinued around surgery despite risks
A retrospective cohort study of Veterans Affairs patients who were prescribed buprenorphine for the treatment of opioid use disorder in 2018 and hospitalized after major surgery found that about two-thirds experienced a perioperative buprenorphine dose hold.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/09/29/3.htm
29 Sep 2021
Medical procedure service trained residents with high success rate
Over a 4.5-year period at one academic medical center, 5,320 procedures were attempted, 58.7% by a supervised resident and 41.3% by an attending, with an overall success rate of 91.1% and a major complication rate of 0.8%.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/20/medical-procedure-service-trained-residents-with-high-success-rate.htm
20 Jul 2022
Gender pay gap persists in internal medicine, especially in procedural subspecialties
Only general internal medicine, endocrinology, and geriatrics had more women than men, and only 26% of full professors were women, an analysis of U.S. internal medicine faculty in 2018 to 2019 found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/07/21/3.htm
21 Jul 2021
Organ procurement procedures appear to vary by individual U.S. hospital
In a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of 13 hospitals covered by two organ procurement organizations, rates of conversion of potential donor patients into actual donors ranged from 0% to 51.0%.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/15/organ-procurement-procedures-appear-to-vary-by-individual-us-hospital.htm
15 Feb 2023
Chief resident-led medical procedure service appears safe, successful
Internal medicine chief residents trained and supervised interns in ultrasound-guided procedures during a four-week rotation. Rates of overall procedure success, complications, and major complications were 94%, 2.6%, and 0.6%, respectively, according to analysis from 2011 to 2022.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/07/chief-resident-led-medical-procedure-service-appears-safe-successful.htm
7 Jun 2023
Review offers four recommendations to improve hospitalists' procedural competency
While no convincing data suggested that bedside procedures performed by procedural specialists have better outcomes than those done by well-trained hospitalists, increased referrals and a lack of standardized training or assessment have led to decreasing procedural competency, a literature review found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/24/2.htm
24 Mar 2021
Checklist use before endotracheal intubation did not improve most outcomes
While use of a preparatory preintubation checklist was not associated with improved survival in critically ill patients, it was associated with decreased hypoxia, a systematic review and meta-analysis found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/07/08/2.htm
8 Jul 2020
ESKD patients more likely to survive procedures when dialysis done closer to surgery
The 90-day mortality rate after a surgical procedure was 5.2% in Medicare patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) who last underwent dialysis three days prior to surgery, compared to 4.7% with dialysis two days prior and 4.2% with it one day prior, a retrospective study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/09/eskd-patients-more-likely-to-survive-procedures-when-dialysis-done-closer-to-surgery.htm
9 Nov 2022