Hospital Medicine News

Children who ingest cannabis edibles with a weight-based dose of tetrahydrocannabinol that is more than 1.7 mg/kg are more likely to develop severe and prolonged toxicity, researchers determined.

Pulse oximeters more frequently overestimated arterial oxygen saturation among Black patients hospitalized with COVID-19 compared with white patients, leading to delayed COVID-19 therapy, a recent study found.

A large study found that long COVID-related conditions may persist among patients for as long as 2 years after recovery from acute disease, with COVID-19-related hospitalization increasing the risk sharply.

The CDC launched a new antisepsis program for U.S. hospitals that was modeled after the agency’s “Core Elements” framework for developing antibiotic stewardship programs.

Only a handful of commonly used disinfectants — primarily chlorine-based disinfectants — were consistently effective against the four major clades of Candida auris, researchers reported.

A genetically engineered pig kidney is functioning well more than a month after being transplanted into the body of a man declared dead by neurologic criteria, doctors announced.

A panel of experts chosen by four leading United States and Canadian clinical toxicology societies have developed clinical recommendations for the management of acetaminophen poisoning in ED settings.

Among transplant recipients treated for cytomegalovirus, resistance to maribavir was less common than resistance to investigator-assigned standard therapy, at baseline and post-treatment, researchers reported.

The “WikiGuidelines” collaborative has published its second clinical practice guideline, stating that oral transitional therapy is at least as effective as IV-only therapy in treating bacterial infective endocarditis in adults.

Biofilms that form in sink drains and plumbing can host multidrug resistant organisms, but cross-department efforts to sanitize them can limit their spread, according to a study.