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To help hospitals transition to more same-day discharge after elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the American College of Cardiology (ACC) released a checklist on deciding whether an overnight stay is necessary.
Among those factors, it noted, same-day discharge programs must make sure of the safety of the patient by considering:
Availability of a caregiver if needed
Complications during PCI
Plans made for prescription of antithrombotic medications, referral to cardiac rehab
Patient education on how to monitor the catheter access site
The ACC expert consensus decision pathway detailing the checklist was published online in the We re hoping that this does increase the number of centers with same-day discharge [SDD] programs. We basically crowdsourced as many SDD protocols as we could to find common themes among them to fashion the pathway, writing group chair Sunil Rao MD, of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, told
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critical care to patients with severe COVID-19 in Wuhan shared best practices
with an international audience. In this follow-up, we take a look at how these lessons were applied and how critical care for these patients has evolved in the U.S. since then.
At the time New York City was just starting its first COVID-19 surge, the pandemic was already easing in Wuhan, China, where temporary COVID-designated hospitals were no longer needed and the country was starting to mandate quarantines for foreign travelers.
In the aftermath of the storm, Chinese doctors reflected on their Wuhan experience and discussed the strategies that had helped patients the most, during a joint webinar hosted mid-March by the American College of Cardiology and the Chinese Cardiovascular Association.