Meeting
Abstract Number: 87
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Pain remains a major concern for medically hospitalized adults, and pain treatment is a focus of hospital quality reporting and improvement efforts. Pharmacologic treatment during hospitalization for acute pain and cancer pain rest on some evidence, but as many as 1 in 3 adult medical inpatients suffer from chronic pain. Little is known about […]
Abstract Number: 382
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: As chronic illnesses are claiming majority of deaths in United States, it is very important that we identify patients with chronic illnesses who have shortened life expectancy and prioritize their needs for palliative care. The different death trajectories of chronic illnesses make it difficult to prognosticate such patients. Available prognostication tools, both disease specific […]
Abstract Number: 395
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: This is a case of a 73-year-old male with a history of CKD stage 4 and left total knee arthroplasty in 2006, who had a recent hospital admission for left knee septic arthritis with left knee prosthesis removal and placement of an antibiotic spacer. Joint fluid cultures grew Serratia marcescens, and the patient […]
Abstract Number: 509
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 68 year old male with history of hemodialysis dependent chronic kidney disease, stroke and vascular dementia was transferred from a nursing home with increased lethargy and abdominal pain. In the emergency department he was found to be febrile to 101.9°F and abdominal exam revealed involuntary guarding with diffuse pain to deep palpation. […]