Search results for "Procedures"
January 2021
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/01/
Tracheostomy tube shortage
The FDA alerted clinicians about the need to reuse tracheostomy tubes and to caution patients about decreased effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis against COVID-19, among other recent actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/11/16/tracheostomy-tube-shortage.htm
16 Nov 2022
Watching residents
Academic hospitalists deal with the challenge of balancing supervision and autonomy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/12/watching-residents.htm
15 Dec 2018
What to say when sharing serious news
Two palliative care experts at CONVERGE outlined common tactics and phrases to avoid in conversations with patients and families and recommended some alternatives.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/04/19/what-to-say-when-sharing-serious-news.htm
19 Apr 2023
Ten tips to avoid ventilation
An expert offers his ideas on proning, feeding, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/04/ten-tips-to-avoid-ventilation.htm
15 Apr 2021
High inpatient occupancy levels associated with lower risk of hospital-acquired C. diff
Researchers analyzed administrative data from 2008 to 2012 among Medicare recipients with a discharge diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia at 327 California hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/07/04/2.htm
4 Jul 2018
Chlorhexidine bathing wasn't effective for preventing infections on the wards
One health system described an unsuccessful intervention to combat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), while the CDC reported that overall declines in hospital-onset MRSA have slowed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/03/13/4.htm
13 Mar 2019
Hypercalcemia from calcium sulfate antibiotic beads
A patient was admitted with right hip pain from a chronic prosthetic joint infection.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/31/free/hypercalcemia-from-calcium-sulfate-antibiotic-beads.htm
31 May 2023
Complications of care
ICD-10 requires that a complication code be assigned every time certain conditions or diagnoses are coded.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/07/coding-corner-complications-of-care.htm
15 Jul 2021
Nutrition, contrast and AKI, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/09/recent-research.htm
15 Sep 2020