Background: The latest guidelines on parapneumonic effusion (PPE) management1 recommend immediate evaluation of PPE with ultrasound. Recognizing that bedside procedure services (BPSs) staffed with procedural hospitalists (proceduralists) are becoming the first point of ultrasound contact for many patients admitted with PPE our study sought to demonstrate that proceduralists can reliably agree with radiologists (viewed as […]

Background: Despite widespread use of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs), about 1 in 20 patients who receive these devices will develop PICC‐related deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Preventing this complication is an important goal for hospitalists. Although prophylactic anticoagulation with heparin for the duration of catheter placement (both in and out of the hospital) has been […]