Meeting
Abstract Number: 18
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Comanagement is a structured collaboration between hospitalists and a surgical service to improve outcomes of surgical patients perioperatively. We identified the potential to improve patient safety and throughput metrics on the Surgical Oncology and Otolaryngology (ENT) services at our institution. We partnered with these two services to create a novel Surgical Oncology Comanagement Service. […]
Abstract Number: 55
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: In the US, the increase in pre-existing maternal conditions and aging of the maternal population has resulted in a shift towards indirect causes of maternal morbidity and mortality. Indirect causes of morbidity and mortality result from previous existing disease or disease that developed during pregnancy and which were not due to direct obstetric causes, but which were […]
Abstract Number: 358
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is increasingly being used across medical specialties, improving diagnostic accuracy in numerous medical presentations and levels of acuity. Training in these skills is currently offered through major societies, but graduate medical POCUS training in internal medicine and family medicine is not common in US residencies. Therefore, we designed a two-week inpatient […]
Abstract Number: 441
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: POCUS is increasingly being used across medical specialties, and adds value to diagnostic accuracy for numerous pathologies and levels of acuity. Emergency Medicine providers were early adapters, providing examples of how POCUS increases patient satisfaction and diagnostic clarity (1, 2). Internal Medicine and Family Medicine have been slower to adopt this technology; however, general […]