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A Day in the Life of an Acute Care SLP
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from a guest blog post that originally appeared on Tactus Therapy. In the post, speech-language pathologist Brenda Arend shares highlights of a typical day working in acute care at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Washington. 8:30 a.m.: Assigning patients The first part of my day is spent opening up patient charts in our EPIC electronic medical record and assigning three SLPs to see patients in our 380-bed hospital. Two or three SLPs cover a caseload that ranges from 15 to 30 patients, although recently we see as many as 42. In addition, we also provide outpatient video fluo...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 9, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Brenda Arend Tags: Speech-Language Pathology acute care Aphasia Cognitive Rehabilitation Dysphagia Health Care Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs

The Evolution of an Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation Service in an Urban Teaching Hospital.
CONCLUSION: We describe the evolution of palliative care in a safety-net hospital. Medicine services which are largely resident run adopted early. Specialty services that are attending driven adopted later. We believe house staff and nurses were the initial change agents. The number of consultations increased when house staff and students began rotating on the service suggesting unmet demand due to the limited supply of providers. PMID: 26543069 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care - November 5, 2015 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Liu OY, Malmstrom T, Burhanna P, Rodin MB Tags: Am J Hosp Palliat Care Source Type: research

Accessing Care for Intracerebral Hemorrhage: An Unexpected Paradox? (P3.095)
Conclusions: Our data suggest that patients arriving by private vehicle were at lower odds of having an unfavorable outcome at discharge. Although this appears to be a paradox to traditional public health teaching, in reality, we would argue that patients presenting by private car should not be directly compared to patients arriving by EMS. Future research should be cognizant of this potential pitfall in an effort to avoid reporting erroneous relationships.Disclosure: Dr. Lyerly has nothing to disclose. Dr. Albright has nothing to disclose. Dr. Bavarsad Shahripour has nothing to disclose. Dr. Sands has nothing to disclose....
Source: Neurology - April 8, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Lyerly, M., Albright, K., Bavarsad Shahripour, R., Sands, K., Shiue, H., Sisson, A., Harrigan, M. Tags: Cerebrovascular Disease and Interventional Neurology: Intracerebral Hemorrhage Source Type: research

Utilization Of In-Hospital Palliative Care For Ischemic Stroke Deaths In United States (S45.005)
Conclusions:In-hospital palliative care is associated with more conservative resource utilization. Significant patient and hospital related differences exists in palliative care utilization for AIS deaths in United States. A growing concern over high cost associated with end of life care in United States is expected to affect the trend of offering and adopting in-hospital palliative services impacting health care finances and quality of care measures.Disclosure: Dr. Shreyansh has nothing to disclose. Dr. Moradiya has nothing to disclose. Dr. Murthy has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - April 9, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Shreyansh, S., Moradiya, Y., Murthy, S. Tags: Cerebrovascular Disease and Interventional Neurology: Rehabilitation, Recovery, and Complications Source Type: research

157 E-Books New to JEFFLINE
Scott Library added these 157 e-books to the growing collection in May and June: Accurate Results in the Clinical Laboratory Adult Emergency Medicine Adult-Gerontology and Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination (4th ed.) Advanced Assessment: Interpreting Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses (2nd ed.) Advancing Your Career: Concepts of Professional Nursing (5th ed.) Arrhythmia Essentials Atlas of Advanced Operative Surgery Atlas of Clinical Neurology (3rd ed.) Atlas of Hematopathology: Morphology, Immunophenotype, Cytogenetics, and Molecular Approaches Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases Atlas of No...
Source: What's New on JEFFLINE - June 25, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Gary Kaplan Tags: All News Clinicians Researchers Students Teaching Faculty Source Type: news

Rate of Utilization and Determination of Withdrawal of Care among Acute Ischemic Stroke Patient Treated with Thrombolytics (P02.002)
CONCLUSIONS: Our results identify several individual and institution related factors that determine the use of "withdrawal of care" among thrombolytic treated ischemic stroke patients. The excessively high mortality and resource utilization mandates a more evidence based policy for "withdrawal of care" in these patients.Disclosure: Dr. Suri has nothing to disclose. Dr. Adil has nothing to disclose. Dr. Gilani has nothing to disclose. Dr. ATACH Investigators has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - February 14, 2013 Category: Neurology Authors: Suri, M. F., Adil, M., Gilani, W., Qureshi, A. Tags: P02 Ethics, Pain, and Palliative Care Source Type: research