Hospital Medicine Alert – February 1, 2015
February 1, 2015
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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Platelet Transfusion
The American Association of Blood Banks has six recommendations of varying strengths based on the availability of quality evidence.
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Should Long-acting Bronchodilators Be Used in Acute Exacerbations of COPD?
ABSTRACT & COMMENTARY: There's a disappointingly high rate of non-recommended drug administration.
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Prior Authorization versus Prospective Audit with Provider Feedback: Does the Effectiveness of the Core Antimicrobial Stewardship Strategies Differ?
SYNOPSIS: In a single academic medical center, changing from a strategy of prior authorization to prospective audit with feedback led to significantly increased total antibiotic use and use of agents with a broad spectrum of gram-negative activity.
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Sudden Death Risk: ARBs or ACE Inhibitors & Co-trimoxazole
Older patients using an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or an angiotensin receptor blocker with co-trimoxazole had an increased risk of sudden death.
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Paradoxical Low-flow, Low-gradient AS
This article originally appeared in the January 2015 issue of Clinical Cardiology Alert. It was peer reviewed by Susan Zhao, MD. Dr. Crawford is Professor of Medicine, Chief of Clinical Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco. He is the editor of Clinical Cardiology Alert. Dr. Zhao is Director, Adult Echocardiography Laboratory, Associate Chief, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Dr. Crawford and Dr. Zhao report no financial relationships relevant to this field of study.