Meeting
Abstract Number: 370
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: By 2022 health care spending is expected to climb to 19.9% of the US GDP and is forecasted to continue rising with no end in sight[1]. The patient (or consumer) is completely detached from the reimbursement system and thus unaware of the distribution of health care dollars. The purpose of this study is to […]
Abstract Number: 377
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Telemetry is overused in hospitals and continues to be a source of health system waste. Although there have been studies on the cause as well as efforts to reduce telemetry overuse, the extent to which physicians are aware that their patients are on telemetry has not been studied. Unawareness of telemetry status has both […]
Abstract Number: 904
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 64 year-old female with a past medical history of GI hemorrhage, and alcohol abuse, was brought to the emergency room for unresponsiveness. Prior to arrival, she underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), under sedation with propofol, for the evaluation of GI hemorrhage, with dilatation of incidentally found esophageal strictures. She did not regain consciousness following […]