{"id":1477,"date":"2010-03-22T19:15:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/%e2%80%a2%c2%a0aha-scientific-statement-on-medication-errors-in-acute-cv-medicine%e2%80%a2%c2%a0bnp-guided-hf-therapy\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:00","slug":"%e2%80%a2%c2%a0aha-scientific-statement-on-medication-errors-in-acute-cv-medicine%e2%80%a2%c2%a0bnp-guided-hf-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/03\/22\/%e2%80%a2%c2%a0aha-scientific-statement-on-medication-errors-in-acute-cv-medicine%e2%80%a2%c2%a0bnp-guided-hf-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2022\u00a0AHA Scientific Statement on Medication Errors in Acute CV Medicine<br \/>\u2022\u00a0BNP-Guided HF Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AHA Scientific Statement on Medication Errors in Acute CV Medicine:<\/strong> &#8220;Cardiovascular medications are the most common drug class associated with medication errors, and cardiovascular patients remain at high risk in the acute hospital phase, even with the current safety strategies,\u201d said Andrew Michaels, chair of the writing committee for a <a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/cgi\/reprint\/CIR.0b013e3181d4b43ev1\">new AHA scientific statement published in <em>Circulation<\/em><\/a>. According to the statement, by following eight recommendations \u2014 from using a simple weight check to using computerized medication orders \u2014 healthcare professionals can help reduce medication errors among hospitalized heart and stroke patients.<strong>BNP-Guided HF Therapy:<\/strong> Porapakkham et al performed a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials that tested the use of\u00a0BNP to guide treatment of heart failure. BNP-guided therapy was associated with a reduction in all-cause mortality, particularly in patients under the age of 75. However, the investigators found no reduction in hospitalizations. The paper appears in <em><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.ama-assn.org\/cgi\/content\/short\/170\/6\/507?home\"><em>Archives of Internal Medicine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHA Scientific Statement on Medication Errors in Acute CV Medicine: &#8220;Cardiovascular medications are the most common drug class associated with medication errors, and cardiovascular patients remain at high risk in the acute hospital phase, even with the current safety strategies,\u201d said Andrew Michaels, chair of the writing committee for a new AHA scientific statement published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}