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- Comfort care: Creating a plan for hospitalized patients and their families
Comfort care plans are always individualized and should naturally evolve as the patient’s clinical status changes.
- Hyperactive delirium in hospitalized older adults: Balancing medication choices and QTc prolongation risk
Medications for managing delirium symptoms, particularly antipsychotics, are associated with prolongation of the QT interval, which is a risk factor for the development of fatal arrhythmias.
- Fighting ageism: Preserving patient agency in critical care
To avoid falling into ageism bias, we must maintain a framework grounded in respect for the patient, one that deliberately centers on the patient’s voice.
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency: A persistently underrecognized condition
Detecting alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency early is imperative because diagnostic delay is associated with harm, including worsened clinical status and impaired survival.
- Preventing cirrhosis: Why primary care clinicians should screen for liver disease in patients who drink heavily
Clinicians in the primary care setting can identify patients with heavy alcohol use and alcohol-related liver disease before they develop advanced liver damage.
- Suzetrigine: A novel nonopioid systemic analgesic
The systemic sodium channel blocker suzetrigine may serve as another option for multimodal postoperative analgesia regimens and for managing acute nonsurgical pain.
- Vaccine hesitancy: Where are we heading?
Vaccination recently was hailed as one of the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century; now, the World Health Organization lists vaccine hesitancy among the top 10 threats to global health.
- Failure to thrive in hospitalized older adults: More than a ‘social admission’
Failure to thrive documented as an admitting diagnosis presents an opportunity to identify, articulate, and begin to ameliorate the true underlying causes of the patient’s health deficits.
- Benzodiazepines: Caught between patient needs and guidelines
Negative sentiment about benzodiazepines has intensified in recent years, and there is increasing emphasis on deprescribing even for people who have had no ill effects from them.
- Collaborative musculoskeletal care: The role for chiropractors
Integrating chiropractors into multidisciplinary care settings can help support guideline-concordant care and may free up internists to see more patients with other problems.