Meeting
Abstract Number: 199
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Continuous intravenous infusions – or “drips” – can be burdensome for patients and clinicians. With this in mind, we identified three scenarios for which providers could safely “skip the drip” in favor a therapeutic alternative: 1) continuous proton pump inhibitor (PPI) infusions for patients with gastrointestinal bleeding; 2) continuous intravenous diuretic therapy in congestive […]