Background: Epidemiological data across the USA show health disparities in COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality by race/ethnicity. The state of New Mexico has the largest Hispanic and the third largest American Indian/Alaskan Natives (AI/AN) populations per capita in the United States. Complications from severe COVID-19 and mortality are largely unreported in diverse cohorts of hospitalized […]

Background: Approximately 5% of patients hospitalized at our institution develop clinically significant alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS). Inpatients who develop AWS may experience seizures, delirium, ICU transfer and prolonged length of stay. While the mortality of AWS, mostly related to delirium tremens, has decreased over time, severe alcohol withdrawal is still associated with a mortality of […]