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Abstract Number: 21
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: The Society of Hospital Medicine considers stroke care to be a core competency in hospital medicine. Hospitalists must be prepared to lead inpatient stroke alerts, as neurologists may not be readily available outside of academic medical centers. However, even graduates of hospitalist training programs may report insufficient experience in leading these complex, time-pressured, high-stakes […]
Abstract Number: 26
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Mentorship is key to successful, satisfying, and engaging academic careers. Models for mentorship and faculty development exist, but are often resource-intensive and focused on achieving success in research. Establishing mentorship in hospital medicine has been challenging given most programs have relatively few senior faculty, and most new hospitalists are recent residency graduates with little […]
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: 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: 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 […]
Abstract Number: 447
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 45 year-old woman presented with 4 hours of lower back pain, after a fall from standing. She did not report a loss of consciousness, and did not injure her head. She had no neurological deficits, nor bladder of bowel dysfunction. She denied any chest pain or dyspnea. A standard 12 lead EKG […]
Abstract Number: 528
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: This is a 65-year-old man with cryptogenic cirrhosis who was transferred to a tertiary care hospital for liver transplant evaluation. His course prior to transfer was complicated by decompensated cirrhosis leading to ascites requiring large volume paracentesis (LVP), acute kidney injury, and upper gastrointestinal bleed due to severe esophagitis with non-bleeding esophageal varices. […]
Abstract Number: 654
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: An 80 yo African-American female with past medical history of hypertension, uterine cancer s/p radiation and mild cognitive impairment presented to the hospital with fatigue and non-specific symptoms for 2 weeks. On examination, vital signs were within normal limits and no acute findings were noticed except impaired vision and mild cognitive impairment. Initial labs were […]