Search results for "Chest pain"
Letter from the Editor
This month's issue includes a cover story on determining admission or discharge for chest pain and articles on improving care of transgender patients, remaining on the alert for Middle East respiratory syndrome, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/10/lfe.htm
15 Oct 2015
Cases from the Medical College of Wisconsin
A group of cases focused on preoperative evaluation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/11/brief-case-from-the-medical-college-of-wisconsin.htm
15 Nov 2019
Recent Research
Delirium screening, rapid response, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/recent-research.htm
15 Dec 2015
Adverse events from supplements bring 23,000 patients to ED each year, study finds
For adults 65 and older, 3 micronutrients (iron, calcium, and potassium) were implicated in about 30% of ED visits, and swallowing problems caused nearly 40% of these visits.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/10/21/3.htm
21 Oct 2015
Urinalysis often ordered without indication on admission, study finds
Patients who received urinalysis not based on symptoms were more likely to receive unnecessary antibiotics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/08/26/2.htm
26 Aug 2015
Colchicine treatment associated with reduced inflammation after STEMI
Greek patients who had STEMI treated with PCI were given 6 days of colchicine and showed smaller infarct sizes than similar patients on placebo.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/08/19/4.htm
19 Aug 2015
Large recall of sodium bicarbonate and other injectables
Details on the latest warnings, recalls, and approvals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/09/fda-update.htm
15 Sep 2017
Fighting the subconscious biases that lead to health care disparities
Physicians work to identify and respond to their own biases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/01/bias-and-disparities.htm
15 Jan 2016
Cases from St. Louis University
Wernicke's encephalopathy, idiopathic splenic infarction, and more
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/11/brief-case-from-st-louis-university.htm
15 Nov 2018
MKSAP quiz on pulmonology
These cases and commentary, which address pulmonology, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP16).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/03/ty.htm
15 Mar 2013