Meeting
Abstract Number: 371
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Clinician prescribing practices are a contributing factor to and potential mitigator of the opioid epidemic in the United States. Several studies have identified the hospital setting as an important entry point into chronic opioid use. The Society for Hospital Medicine (SHM) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have made recommendations for […]
Abstract Number: 385
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Diabetes is common, present in up to one third of hospitalized patients and up to 50% of critically ill patients. Studies have shown that hyperglycemia among hospitalized patients leads to worse clinical outcomes and increases readmission rates by over 30% relative to normo-glycemic patients. Insulin is the only medication recommended for treatment of diabetes […]
Abstract Number: 745
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: This is a 77 year old woman with a history of severe aortic stenosis, severe mitral regurgitation, and chronic atrial fibrillation (afib) on coumadin. In 2017, she underwent bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement, mitral valve repair, biatrial ablation (Maze procedure), and left atrial appendage ligation (WATCHMAN procedure), after which she was to continue coumadin […]