Background: The onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic created innumerable challenges and demanded rapid innovation for perioperative medicine. In March 2020, in response to our institution’s expectations, our hospitalist-led preoperative medicine clinic rapidly pivoted to patient care via telehealth. Purpose: Before the pandemic, our hospitalist-led preoperative medicine clinic was already in the early planning stages […]

Background: Perioperative medicine is a complexed area of hospitalist medicine, with many nuanced clinical management scenarios. At Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Hospital medicine and perioperative medicine are two separate sections within the division of general internal medicine. The sections share some clinical services, including night coverage and sick (“jeopardy”) call. Perioperative medicine […]

Background: Pulmonary embolism (PE) is the third most common vascular disease in the US, frequently underdiagnosed and potentially fatal condition where embolic material blocks one or more pulmonary arteries impairing blood flow. In this study, we aim to describe the prevalence, outcomes, and predictors of mortality of mechanical (MT) and surgical thrombectomy (ST). Methods: This […]