Hospital at Home units in the post‐COVID 19 era

Echocardiography education in COVID-19 era

In an emergency: at home or in the hospital.

At Home or in the Hospital Treating patients who have myocardial infarctions with intravenous clot-busting drugs at home or in an ambulance significantly reduces the time to treatment and increases the numbers of heart attacks that are stopped in progress. However , patients whose hearts stop in the hospital may find themselves waiting precious minutes while a person skilled in defibrillation i...

Continuous peripheral nerve blocks in the hospital and at home.

A single-injection peripheral nerve block using long-acting local anesthetic provides analgesia for 12 to 24 hours; however, many surgical procedures result in pain that lasts far longer. One relatively new option is a continuous peripheral nerve block (CPNB): local anesthetic is perfused via a perineural catheter directly adjacent to the peripheral nerve(s) supplying the surgical site, providi...

Satisfaction with hospital at home care.

OBJECTIVES To examine differences in satisfaction with acute care between patients who received treatment in a physician-led substitutive Hospital at Home program and those who received usual acute hospital care. DESIGN Survey questionnaire of participants in prospective, nonrandomized clinical trial. SETTING Three Medicare-managed care health systems and a Department of Veterans Affairs Me...

Hospital at home: the right place for the right patient.

Hospitals have existed for centuries, linked to religious beliefs in ancient times, then shifting focus to care for the poor and sick, before evolving into the modern beacons of health care with dense concentrations of specialty care, expertise, and technologic advances. For the very ill, optimal or best care became synonymous with care in a hospital, and the model of health care shifted from h...