Critical Care News

ORLANDO, Fla. – Increased wait time to the operating room in patients with hip fractures is associated with greater chance of mortality, Barbara Slawski, MD, MS, said during the “Hospital Medicine Update” here at Hospital Medicine 2018.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Despite significant disruptive forces in health care, hospital medicine “is positioned about as good as any specialty can be positioned,” Laurence Wellikson, MD, MHM, CEO of the Society of Hospital Medicine said here.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Opioid prescribing parallels the increased rate of opioid deaths, and opioid stewardship is just as important in hospital setting as it is in the outpatient setting, Shoshana J. Herzig, MD, MPH, said here at Hospital Medicine 2018.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Society of Hospital Medicine incoming President Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA, addressed 4,000 hospitalists here and said the future of hospital medicine is population health management.

A medication reconciliation bundle including combined pharmacist and prescriber efforts did not reduce 30-day postdischarge ED visits or readmissions to the hospital, according to research published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Extremely preterm infants who are treated with diuretics for respiratory conditions are more likely to require more invasive respiratory support every day after the treatment began, according to findings published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

Initiation of early comfort care in patients with heart failure varied widely among hospitals and was not associated with higher 30-day risk-standardized mortality rates, according to findings published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Condition-specific readmission measures from Medicare may provide an incomplete and inaccurate depiction of hospital quality, according to research published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

More than half of patients who received Chantix after an acute coronary syndrome event resumed smoking, according to findings recently published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

In this guest commentary, Michael D. Randell, MD, FACOG, from the department of surgery in the division of gynecology at Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Atlanta, discusses how to properly manage fluids when performing hysteroscopy.