Search results for "Imaging"
CT perfusion imaging not often available at hospitals treating acute ischemic stroke
In findings from a Texas Medicare cohort validated with national data, 3% of patients with acute ischemic stroke were evaluated with CT perfusion, and most cases were evaluated at hospitals that did not offer this test.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/31/4.htm
31 Mar 2021
First medication for severe frostbite approved
The FDA also warned about smartwatches claiming to measure blood sugar without piercing the skin, among other recent actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/06/first-medication-for-severe-frostbite-approved.htm
6 Mar 2024
ACP Hospitalist - Brief Case Guidelines
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/write/brief-case-submission-guidelines.html
New guidance on CPR, chest imaging, and ECMO
Medical societies addressed appropriate resuscitation and chest imaging practices for patients with COVID-19, as well as general use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/15/2.htm
15 Apr 2020
Cases from the Medical College of Wisconsin
A mycotic aneurysm, retroperitoneal hematoma, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/28/free/cases-from-the-medical-college-of-wisconsin.htm
28 Feb 2024
Unnecessary blood tests and imaging common in cellulitis hospitalizations, study finds
Over two-thirds of patients with uncomplicated cellulitis received imaging, none of which would have been recommended by guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/04/11/2.htm
11 Apr 2018
Measuring hospitalist busyness
Busy hospitalists list fewer differential diagnoses. A researcher ponders the implications for diagnostic error.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/06/measuring-hospitalist-busyness.htm
6 Dec 2023
Clinical decision support may be best strategy to reduce imaging for pulmonary embolism
In a systematic review of 17 studies, electronic clinical decision support was associated with a reduction in the use of imaging ranging between 8.3% and 25.4%, a rise in diagnostic yield of 3.4% to 4.4%, and an increase in appropriate ordering of 18% to 19%.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/10/3.htm
10 Jan 2018
January 2018
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/01/
Algorithm appears to safely exclude PE, reduce need for imaging
The YEARS algorithm combines three components of the original Wells clinical decision rule (clinical signs of deep venous thrombosis, hemoptysis, and likely diagnosis of pulmonary embolism) with varying D-dimer thresholds.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/06/07/3.htm
7 Jun 2017