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Abstract Number: 162
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: According to the most recent data released by the Centers for Disease Control, forty-six Americans die every day due to narcotic prescription drug overdose. Nationally, health care providers wrote two hundred and fifty-nine million prescriptions for narcotic analgesics in 2012, or roughly one bottle of narcotics per US adult. In an attempt to reduce […]
Abstract Number: 176
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Practical and financial pressures have placed a renewed focus on improving the human experience of healthcare from both the patient and provider perspective. Despite this, aligning patients and interdisciplinary providers around meaningful experience improvement in the inpatient setting remains elusive. We sought to develop an innovative interdisciplinary design process for experience improvement on a […]
Abstract Number: 211
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Troponin assays are an important diagnostic tool, often for the evaluation of potential acute coronary syndrome. Current guidelines recommend using the assay a maximum of twice in the initial triage period if both values are negative and there is relative clinical stability. However, additional assays are often ordered to reassure the provider. Since this […]
Abstract Number: 313
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: The role of a hospitalist in treating nicotine withdrawal using counseling and medications during hospitalization can improve cessation rates of tobacco users. Clinical decision support and drug-condition alerts within the electronic medical record prompt the prescribing of medications for tobacco treatment and ease documentation of reimbursable counseling by physicians. Additionally, several hospitals have implemented […]
Abstract Number: 353
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: This is a 76 year-old female with no significant past medical history who presented to her primary care physician for evaluation of changes in visual acuity and color perception. Two months after initial presentation she was referred to see an ophthalmologist who noted bilateral papilledema. An MRA, MRV, and MRI were obtained without […]
Abstract Number: 369
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 31 year old male with no significant past medical history presented with recurrent fevers, nausea, vomiting and headaches. He denied travel outside the U.S, camping, or hiking. Temperature was 103F associated with tachycardia. Physical examination was unremarkable except for mild scleral icterus.Initial labs showed transaminitis, hyperbilirubinemia, leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, and elevated ferritin > […]
Abstract Number: 378
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: In 2004, the American Heart Association (AHA) published recommendations on the use of cardiac monitoring in the hospital setting. It provided a rating system for its indications (Class I-III), which stratify the likelihood of benefit. In June 2013, The Joint Commission approved NPSG.06.01.01, a patient safety goal on clinical alarm use in the hospital […]
Abstract Number: 388
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 35 year old female with no significant past medical history developed fever late in the third trimester of her second pregnancy. The prior and current pregnancy had been uneventful. The fever was believed to be viral and she rested at home. After being seen by her OB with persistent fever, she was […]
Abstract Number: 397
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 62 year old male with past medical history of DVT, prostate cancer diagnosed 2 years ago, presented to the hospital complaining of 1 day weakness in his left upper and lower extremities. Head CT revealed a sub-acute right side ischemic infarct. Physical exam was significant for jaundice, left facial droop, left tongue […]
Abstract Number: 402
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 78-year-old white female with sarcomatoid mesothelioma status post gemcitabine and carboplatin presented to an urgent care center with sudden onset of low grade fever and fatigue. She reported a puppy bite 1 week earlier. Examination revealed ½ cm ecchymosis on left forearm at bite site. She was sent home on oral levaquin […]