Meeting
Abstract Number: 92
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
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 […]
Abstract Number: 270
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Testing of ascitic fluid is recommended in all patients admitted to the hospital and delay in paracentesis has been shown to increase in-hospital mortality. Academic hospitalists in collaboration with internal medicine residency programs are establishing medicine procedure services to address concerns about resident training in procedures and patient safety. Our aim in this study […]
Abstract Number: 474
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Internal medicine and hospital medicine providers are under pressure to move patients quickly through the hospital and decrease length of stay. Providers spending most of their clinical time seeing patients, documenting or coordinating care and have minimal time to disrupt workflow to perform common bedside procedures such as paracentesis, lumbar punctures, central lines, arthrocentesis […]