Search results for "Cardiology"
Guide to a guideline
The lead author of the 2024 guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation highlights important changes included in it.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2025/01/01/guide-to-a-guideline.htm
1 Jan 2025
Cardiology groups issue guidance on heart failure
A focused update addresses biomarkers, new therapies for stage C heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, new data on important comorbidities, and new insights into heart failure prevention.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/05/03/4.htm
3 May 2017
Hypertension
Accurate documentation of hypertensive crisis, urgency, and emergency can have a substantial impact on reimbursement.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/11/20/hypertension.htm
20 Nov 2024
Uncovering AF
Experts discuss the increasing evidence that new atrial fibrillation (AF) in an inpatient is something to worry about.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/09/04/uncovering-af.htm
4 Sep 2024
Cardiac societies release guideline on evaluation, diagnosis of chest pain
The recommendations from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, with support from other societies, provide algorithms for assessing and diagnosing chest pain in adults and offer 10 take-home points, including on use of testing and imaging.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/11/10/3.htm
10 Nov 2021
May 2007
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/05/
Decision pathway provides checklist of factors to consider before same-day discharge after nonurgent PCI
The American College of Cardiology's expert consensus decision pathway includes a checklist of clinical, social, and facility/systems factors to consider before and after elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to help clinicians make informed decisions around same-day discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/01/13/5.htm
13 Jan 2021
Handling high-sensitivity troponin
The advent of high-sensitivity troponin testing in U.S. hospitals may be another example of how less can be more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/06/26/handling-high-sensitivity-troponin.htm
26 Jun 2024
High-sensitivity troponin reduced the cascade of cardio interventions after chest pain
An analysis of ED patients found an increase in repeat troponin testing and EKGs, but reductions in CT scans, stress tests, cardiology evaluations, and hospitalizations associated with implementation of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin testing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/06/23/4.htm
23 Jun 2021
Expert clinical decision pathway details diagnosis, management of myocarditis
The guidance from the American College of Cardiology includes a five-step care pathway for myocarditis, including strategies for diagnosis, risk stratification, and surveillance, and proposes four new stages of disease classification.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/12/18/expert-clinical-decision-pathway-details-diagnosis-management-of-myocarditis.htm
18 Dec 2024