AHA/ACC 2022 HF Guidelines
2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Heart Failure Guideline: Key Perspectives – American College of Cardiology HFpEF LVEF > 50% HFrEF LVEF <40% Drugs: #458 Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction – The Curbsiders…
Restless Legs Syndrome: New guideline provides treatment recommendations for RLS
Evaluate for and treat underlying conditions that can exacerbate RLS • Iron Deficiency • OSA, PLMS • CKD, ESRD • Alcohol, caffeine, antihistaminergic, serotonergic, antidopaminergic medications • Diabetes, COPD •…
Multiple adverse outcomes associated with antipsychotic use in people with dementia: population based matched cohort study | The BMJ
https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj-2023-076268
Don’t Lose Your Head: Altered Mental Status (AMS) and UTI
Clinical-Pearl-Altered-Mental-Status-and-UTIDownload
Fifteen Things Physicians and Patients Should Question in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care:
Choosing Wisely | AMDA (paltc.org)
Alzheimer’s Hope – Making Life Better TODAY
Meet all dementia patients where THEY are. You cannot reason with an illogical person who has dementia. https://www.alzheimershope.com/10absolutes/six.php
Lecture: UTI or ASB?
Washington State Dept of Health Antimicrobial Stewardship of UTI in the LTC Setting. UTI lecture #1 Slides Washington State Dept of Health Debunking the Myths Associated with UTI Lecture Video…
Liberal fluid intake versus fluid restriction in chronic heart failure: a randomized clinical trial | Nature Medicine
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03628-4
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia | Nature
Through the use of a unique natural experiment, this study provides evidence of a dementia-preventing or dementia-delaying effect from zoster vaccination that is less vulnerable to confounding and bias than…
2025 GOLD Report – Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease – GOLD
https://goldcopd.org/2025-gold-report/
Concomitant Use of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors With Oral Anticoagulants and Risk of Major Bleeding | Cardiology | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2816687
So you know how to treat iron deficiency anemia | Blood | American Society of Hematology
https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/126/17/1971/34416/So-you-know-how-to-treat-iron-deficiency-anemia
Help Me Donate Money to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo – Run to the Shrine !!
I’ll do the work if you donate some money!! Better yet, come join me. I’ll “let” you beat me up the hill. Donate to my page here –> https://raceroster.com/events/2025/99430/run-to-the-shrine-2025-sunday-may-18/pledge/participant/458
Medical Director Report April 2025
Psychotropics and Chemical Restraints Ftag 605 Ensure that we are following a good process for recognizing behaviors, evaluating them, documenting them, and attempting non-pharm interventions. Always ask, “Is this for…
Agreement of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and amyloid-PET in a multicenter study | European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00406-023-01701-y
Your Role as Medical Director in the Survey Process | PALTmed
https://paltmed.org/your-role-medical-director-survey-process
The unstoppable rise of health care administrators: a cautionary song
https://kevinmd.com/2025/04/the-unstoppable-rise-of-health-care-administrators-a-cautionary-song.html