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Tips for significant others
March 31, 2017
While thousands of hospitalists and other HM17 attendees swarm the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino for a four-day crash course on all things hospital medicine, thousands more family members tag along.
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Preoperative VTEs occurred in 10% of cancer patients
March 27, 2017
SEATTLE – Those with preoperative VTEs were significantly more likely to experience postoperative complications.
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Dabigatran crushes warfarin for AF ablation
March 23, 2017
RE-CIRCUIT trial is called practice changing for AF ablation.
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HM17: Plenaries – Conway and DeSalvo
March 22, 2017
The keynote speakers at HM17 are both optimistic about the future of the U.S. health care system, despite concerns about the rollback of the Affordable Care Act and what that could mean for access to care.
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A little rivaroxaban goes a long way
March 18, 2017
Reduced doses maintain effectiveness; still more effective than aspirin.
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Prediction: LVADs will rule end-stage heart failure
February 27, 2017
SNOWMASS, COLO. – Will mechanical circulatory support ultimately surpass heart transplantation?
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Big changes ahead in heart failure management
February 26, 2017
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Selected elderly trauma patients do well in non–ICU wards
December 7, 2016
CORONADO, CALIF. – When elderly patients are appropriately triaged, they can be selectively admitted to non–intensive care wards with acceptable outcomes, results from a single-center study showed.
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First-in-kind study parsed risks of central lines in children
December 5, 2016
SAN DIEGO - Rising rates of pediatric venous thromboembolism in the United States underscore the need to carefully weigh the risks and benefits of placing central lines.
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Observational hospital stays for HF linked to worse outcomes
December 5, 2016
NEW ORLEANS – Heart failure patients admitted as inpatients had significantly better outcomes than those admitted for an observational stay.