Search results for "Internal Medicine 2011"
Recognizing, preventing and treating delirium
If you remember only one thing about treating agitation and delirium in the hospital, it should be to avoid benzodiazepines, said Brian Huang, ACP Member, assistant professor of medicine in the division of hospital medicine at the University of California San Diego, during the hospital medicine precourse at Internal Medicine 2011.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/04/13/1.htm
13 Apr 2011
History, physical exam important in dermatology diagnosis
At the start of his session on dermatology in the acute care setting, Mark Davis, MD, chair of the division of dermatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., encouraged internists to consult dermatologists about any skin eruption. An hour and many tales from the field later, he'd made a convincing case for this suggestion.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/04/13/2.htm
13 Apr 2011
Ethics committee brings medical dilemmas to life
A passerby wandering into the room might have been shocked by the ethics being displayed by physicians on stage during a session on ethical challenges. For example, Kathy Faber-Langendoen, FACP, described how she prescribed opiates for her own mother, and accused physicians of having left her grandmother to die.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/04/13/3.htm
13 Apr 2011
Multi-drug diabetes regimens need not be complex
Diabetic progression is almost inevitable, so to help internists sort out which drug to use and when, Anne Peters, FACP, CDE, director of the clinical diabetes programs at the University of Southern California, spoke on “Pharmacotherapy Practices in Type 2 Diabetes.”
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/04/13/4.htm
13 Apr 2011
Pocket-sized procedures
Ultrasound images, formerly only available from machines weighing hundreds of pounds and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, can now be viewed on devices significantly smaller in both size and price.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/05/ultrasounds.htm
15 May 2011
When it's not a fever
When you see a patient with a temperature of 101, what do you note in the chart? Probably, “fever,” right? Maybe not.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/fever.htm
15 Jun 2011
Letter from the Editor
This issue discusses partial DNRs and includes extensive coverage from Internal Medicine 2011, held this April in San Diego.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/lfe.htm
15 Jun 2011
Testing the tests
An expert gives advice on which tests may be most helpful in diagnosing intensive care patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/testing.htm
15 Jun 2011
Antimicrobials: New drugs, new resistance
Ten years ago, infection control was the biggest trend in tackling hospital-based infectious diseases. Now the new hot area is antibiotic stewardship.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/antimicrobials.htm
15 Jun 2011
Recognizing, preventing and treating delirium
A large proportion of inpatients have delirium, but in most, it goes unrecognized.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/06/delirium.htm
15 Jun 2011