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Abstract Number: 325
SHM Converge 2023
Background: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires residency programs to collect work hour data from trainees, with strict policies that no trainee should exceed an 80-hour work week (on average). Evaluating efforts to reduce work hours frequently relies on self-reported hours from trainees, which is subject to recall bias, inconsistency, and variable […]
Abstract Number: 408
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Development of opiate use disorder and opiate overdose has been associated with prolonged opiate-days prescribed. Conventionally, opiate-days supplied has been calculated based on the discharge prescription signature (e.g., how a patient is supposed to take the medication) and the number of pills dispensed. It is not clear whether the number of days supplied reflects […]
Abstract Number: 642
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 73-year-old man who had been under quarantine for a week prior to presumed COVID-19 presented to the emergency department (ED) with worsening malaise, fever, and loss of appetite. Two weeks prior, the patient presented to his primary care provider (PCP) with fevers, dry cough, exertional dyspnea, sweats, malaise, anorexia, anosmia, and dysgeusia. […]
Abstract Number: 768
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 68 year-old male transferred from an outside hospital to this tertiary care academic medical center. He presented at the outside hospital with syncope, nausea, diarrhea, rash, profound weakness and fever. Because he was a rancher and frequently had tick bites, with one recently found to be deeply embedded and engorged with blood, […]
Abstract Number: 772
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: 65-year-old female with hypertension and smoking history presented with a gradual onset of painful, edematous feet for 4-days. She continued to develop erythema and a constant, nonradiating pain in her feet. The patient also noted an increase in her baseline dyspnea, migratory arthralgias, and recurrent sinusitis. On exam, she had sinus tachycardia, inspiratory wheezing, and edematous, erythematous feet. […]
Abstract Number: 836
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 90-year-old Caucasian female with non-valvular atrial fibrillation, on therapeutic anticoagulation with warfarin was admitted with community acquired pneumonia. She was treated with Levofloxacin. She underwent cardioversion for symptomatic atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular rate and was later switched to Rivaroxaban 20 mg. Hepatic and renal function were within normal limits (creatinine clearance […]