Background: Our institution is a Level 1 regional trauma center with a large inpatient volume. A large percentage of these patients are elderly, with the traumatic events occurring as sequelae of their age, debility or medical complications. Last year, we developed a Trauma/Acute Care Surgery Hospitalist Co-Management program, due to, in large part, the increasing [...]

Background: Consultative Medicine is one of the fastest growing branches of Hospital Medicine. We believe that residents require adequate exposure and appropriate level of training to provide excellent care to patients. Purpose: The goal of the rotation is to train and prepare residents for a successful future as consultants. The rotation has been designed to [...]

Background: The aging population along with increasing multi-morbidity and stricter regulations on house staff duty hours have played an integral role in fueling the drive for medical co-management of surgical patients. Parallel to these trends is an increasing demand for surgical services and risk for postoperative complications. While a positive impact on clinical outcomes has [...]

Background: The care of surgical patients is becoming more complex as patients with increasing comorbidities require surgical procedures. In adult hospital medicine, co-management of complex medical patients by hospital medicine and surgery has been shown to decrease length of stay and readmission for many procedures. It remains unclear, however, which patients are most likely to [...]

Background: Patients with increasing age and medical complexity are undergoing colorectal surgery. Medical complications are not uncommon, and may contribute to higher mortality. We implemented a unique surgical co-management (SCM) model in July 2014 at our institution where two SCM hospitalists were dedicated to Colorectal surgery year round. Each patient was screened daily by a [...]

Background: Hip fractures are a major health problem in the geriatric population in the United States, with estimated costs of $18B annually. Hip fractures are highly morbid in the elderly, as deconditioning and acute complications compound chronic comorbidities. To improve care for this high-risk population, hip fracture patients are preferentially admitted to our medicine hospitalist [...]

Background: A lack of standardization in care delivery can lead to variations in outcomes in the high-risk work of neurosurgery. The aim of this program was to develop, implement and evaluate the impact of three standardized interventions to improve neurosurgical patient outcomes and experiences. Methods: Hospitalists partnered with Anesthesia and Neurosurgery leaders from five large [...]

Case Presentation: A 47 year old female with a history of depression and remote Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, presented for an elective laparoscopic gastrectomy due to hypertrophic pyloric stenosis causing complete gastric remnant outlet obstruction. Her home medications included duloxetine, pantoprazole and alprazolam. Vital signs on admission revealed blood pressure 147/83 mm Hg, pulse 80 [...]