Clinical Deterioration
Q&A: Children’s hospitals need a standard outcome for clinical deterioration
There is no gold standard outcome to guide care for unrecognized clinical deterioration outside the ICU among hospitalized children despite the high risk for morbidity and mortality these patients face, experts noted recently in Pediatrics.
Ravulizumab reduces clinical deterioration in patients with generalized myasthenia gravis
Ravulizumab was associated with fewer clinical deterioration events in adults with anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody-positive generalized myasthenia gravis, according to a poster at the 2023 MDA Clinical & Scientific Conference.
Fitness trackers did not indicate clinical deterioration among patients on dialysis
Patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis demonstrated a low, daily step count, a study in Kidney Medicine revealed. However, researchers found dialysis did not have a consistent effect on the number of steps taken.
In small study, antidepressant prevents clinical deterioration in patients with COVID-19
Use of the antidepressant fluvoxamine in patients with COVID-19 was associated with a slightly lower likelihood of clinical deterioration over 15 days in a small study, according to results published in JAMA.