Meeting
Abstract Number: 949
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 50 year old man with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) presented with flank pain, nausea, vomiting, and fever. On exam, he was febrile, tachycardic, hypotensive, and had right sided CVA tenderness. The ER performed a CT stone protocol, however, imaging demonstrated right sided emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN). Our patient was admitted […]
Abstract Number: G22
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Studies have demonstrated that oral medications such as metformin are safe to continue in the hospital, and that when insulin is used in a hospital setting, a basal or basal-bolus regimen is more effective than sliding scale monotherapy (1-2). Despite mounting evidence and society guidelines, clinicians have been slow to adopt these practices in […]