This new online Clinics series, Hospital Medicine Clinics, provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. This second issue in our growing online database covers essential updates in the management of class III and IV heart failure; pulmonary hypertension; diabetic foot infections; hyponatremia; acute pancreatitis; management of acute stroke; prevention of deep vein thrombosis; electroconvulsive therapy; advance directives; and legal pitfalls for the hospitalist.
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Adaptive pressure support servoventilation: a novel treatment for Cheyne-Stokes respiration in heart failure. ... Chest 2012;142:1211–21. ... Pulmonary complications of chronic neuromuscular diseases and their management.
It will be important to build these value contributions into care bundles and develop shared outcomes measures for value-cost models across the spectrum of care for patients with OSA. REFERENCES 1. Porter ME, Pabo EA, Lee TH.
This online Clinics series provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Grateful appreciation to John Belew, PhD, Timothy Feyma, MD, Beverly Wical, MD, John Garcia, MD, Samuel Roiko, PhD, Jean Stansbury, CPNP, Neota Moe, LCISW, Melanie Rouse, LCISW, Natalie Kinsky, CCLS, Heather Mason, RN, ...
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