Hospital Medicine

General Geriatric Medicine

Questions discussed in this category

For older adults undergoing intermediate-risk non-cardiac surgery, do you routinely check pre-operative pro-BNP levels for risk stratification based on emerging data and updated Canadian guidelines?

Duceppe et al., PMID 27865641

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Have you changed your approach to delaying hip surgery in the context of decompensated CHF given the findings of the HIP-ATTACK study?

HIP ATTACK Investigators, PMID 32050090

1 Answer available

What is the role for checking uric acid levels in evaluation of SIADH in hospitalized older adults?

1 Answer available

How do you titrate opioids for pain and breathlessness in patients with a DNR/DNI code status, but who otherwise still wish to pursue life-prolonging treatments?

2 Answers available

Papers discussed in this category

Circulation, 2024 Sep 24

2024 AHA/ACC/ACS/ASNC/HRS/SCA/SCCT/SCMR/SVM Guideline for Perioperative Cardiovascular Management for Noncardiac Surgery: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Lancet (London, England), 2020 Feb 09

Accelerated surgery versus standard care in hip fracture (HIP ATTACK): an international, randomised, controlled trial.

The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume, 2024 Jul 25

Myocardial Injury in Patients with Hip Fracture: A HIP ATTACK Randomized Trial Substudy.

Journal of clinical anesthesia, 2023 Jul 11

Diagnostic and prognostic value of cardiac stress testing before major noncardiac surgery-A cohort study.

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979), 2005 Jun 06

Effect of compensated renal dysfunction on approved heart failure markers: direct comparison of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and N-terminal pro-BNP.

European journal of heart failure, 2022 Aug 08

Clinical effect of obesity on N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide cut-off concentrations for the diagnosis of acute heart failure.

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