Becker's Healthcare September 16, 2024
Research is mounting against the common practices of prescribing thickened liquids, conducting spine implants for back pain and suspending blood pressure medicines before surgery, The New York Times reported Sept. 14.
These practices are commonplace, but some healthcare workers have cast caution for years because of poor clinical results. More studies now present evidence backing these doubts, the Times reported:
1. Thickened liquids are used in the hopes of preventing aspiration pneumonia, but researchers at Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y., found no mortality difference between thick and thin liquid diets in about 8,000 hospital patients. JAMA published the results May 6.
The researchers also discovered no significant difference in length of stay, readmissions...
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