Meeting
Abstract Number: 252
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: At our urban, academic hospital, use of outdated protocols and unnecessary variations in the care of DKA patients treated with ICU requiring IV insulin protocols have led to multiple safety events, delays in care with associated increased costs, and overtreatment of hyperglycemia with ketosis frequently resulting in unnecessary ICU utilization. After multi-disciplinary stakeholder development […]
Abstract Number: 378
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 40-year-old previously healthy female presented nine weeks postpartum with numerous episodes of nonbilious, nonbloody emesis that began 24 hours prior to admission. She took no medications and denied fevers, chills, dysuria, cough, or ingestion of alcohol or other substances. She reported that since her uncomplicated vaginal birth, she had been adhering to […]
Abstract Number: 442
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: We are presenting a case of a 71-year-old male patient with a history of hypertension, non-insulin dependent type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) well controlled on metformin, and non-invasive high grade urothelial bladder cancer diagnosed in 2014 treated with transurethral resection of the prostate and intravesicular mitomycin. In 2016, his bladder cancer has progressed […]