Hospital Medicine News

N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide levels before noncardiac surgery was strongly linked to myocardial injury and vascular death within 30 days after the procedure and may improve cardiac risk prediction along with the Revised Cardiac Risk Index, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The donor pool for heart transplants can potentially be expanded now that the infection from donor-derived hepatitis C is curable and well tolerated, according to a study published in JAMA Cardiology.

Among patients with acute conditions, hospital care at home reduced costs, health care use and readmission and increased physical activity compared with usual care, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Older adults who were hospitalized unexpectedly for the first time faced a 5-fold increased risk for death compared with those who were not hospitalized, according to a study published in CMAJ.

Professional cardiology and geriatrics societies have expressed a need for risk-stratification tools specific to older adults, and researchers have now developed a model to predict 6-month mortality in seniors hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction.

The risk of developing nephrogenic systemic fibrosis was low with the use of gadolinium-based contrast agents for MRI in patients with CKD, according to a recently published study.

Cell phone-related head and neck injuries have increased significantly in recent years, according to a study published in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head Neck Surgery.

An episode of the popular TV show Grey’s Anatomy helped to increase public awareness of sexual assault and a hotline for people seeking assistance, according to study findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Researchers tested the ability of a silver-coated antimicrobial screen to protect the cell phones of resident physicians against pathogens and found that the phones’ microbial diversity decreased significantly when tested at day 7 compared with days 0 and 30, but testing on day 30 showed no change in the microbiome of the phone screen.

WASHINGTON — Data presented at ASN Kidney Week indicated the incidence of acute kidney injury is higher for non-critically ill hospitalized pediatric patients than indicated by previous research.