While we are always doing our best to keep the local chapter pages updated, there might be times where things are missed. Whether it’s a meeting, a missing speaker bio, or information that has become recently available regarding a...Read More »
In Alice in Wonderland, Walt Disney’s 1951 adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s beloved book, Alice visits a caterpillar sitting atop a mushroom, smoking. The caterpillar asks, “Who R U?” in smoke rings while Alice stammers that she hardly knows anymore. “I’ve...Read More »
Research presented at the American Thoracic Society’s (ATS) 2020 virtual event suggests that hospitalizations due to e-cigarette and vaping associated lung injury (...Read More »
One of my physicians recently documented this statement “urine MRSA positive, but patient asymptomatic and vital signs stable, likely colonization from chronic catheter.” Based on this documentation, could we code a catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI)?Read More »