Case Presentation: A 71‐year‐old woman with a medical history significant for hypercholesterolemia and COPD presented to the hospital with dyspnea and bilateral lower‐extremity edema for a few days. She was recently diagnosed with stage I pancreatic cancer treated with resection and had completed 4 cycles of gemcitabine. Medications on admission included simvastatin, albuterol, and fluticasone/salmeterol […]

Background: Prevalence of alcohol use disorder (AUD) on inpatient medicine wards exceeds 40%. Only 50% of these patients develop alcohol withdrawal, of whom only 5-20% develop complicated alcohol withdrawal syndromes (AWS) that warrant treatment and monitoring. Overutilization of the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment of Alcohol Scale, Revised (CIWA-Ar) scale is well-reported in the literature. CIWA-Ar […]