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Case of the month
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-02)
Orthopedic Surgery requested an inpatient Internal Medicine consultation for evaluation of an 81 year old woman with multiple vertebral fractures of possible pathologic origin. The patient had been in excellent health with ...
ID corner : Swine flu
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-05)
Swine Flu: the words on everyone's lips. It is now referred to as Novel H1N1 influenza out of respect for pigs. But the New England Journal has published a whole issue on this subject.
ID corner : updated IV catheter infection guidelines
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-06)
The IDSA has updated their practice guidelines for IV catheter infections. Citation and link to article.
Do physicians impose clinical care decisions with life and death implications on patients without their knowledge and consent?
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-07)
This case represents what may be an increasingly common problem: decision making by specialists (including hospitalists) who are less informed than the patient's PCP regarding his/her overall clinical status, prognosis and ...
The use of perioperative beta blockers in non-cardiac surgery patients
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-12)
Currently, more than 30 million noncardiac surgeries are performed in the United States each year. Perioperative cardiac complications are a major cause of morbidity and death in these patients, prolonging hospitalizations ...
Case of the month
(University of Missouri. Department of Medicine. Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-09)
Hospitalist update
(University of Missouri. Department of Medicine. Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-09)
ID corner : Infection associated with prosthetic joints
(University of Missouri. Department of Medicine. Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-09)
From the journals
(University of Missouri. Department of Medicine. Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-09)
Case of the month : P-ANCA vasculitis in a patient with Alpha-1-Antitrypsin deficiency : a possible mechanism
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-08)
Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) testing plays a critical role in the diagnosis and classification of vasculitis. These antibodies are strongly associated with Wegener's granulomatosis, microscopic polyangiitis ...
From the journals
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-12)
Citations for five articles of interest to hospitalists.
Case of the month
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-06)
An 86 year old AA woman was referred to University Hospital from the dialysis center where she had complained of worsening dyspnea over the past 2 weeks. She denied cough, fever, chills or rigors. Per her dialysis notes, ...
Hospitalist conference at ACP meeting
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-06)
A Hospitalist Conference and Luncheon will be held at the annual Missouri ACP Meeting, at Tan-Tar-A Resort, Lake of the Ozarks, in September. Scheduled to begin at 12:15 on Saturday, September 26, the theme of the Conference ...
From the journals
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-06)
Two citations of articles of interest to hospitalists.
Turing-type instabilities in a mathematical model of notch and retinoic acid pathways
(2006)
In this paper we employ Turing Theory to study the effects of Notch and Retinoic Acid (RA) pathways on neuronal differentiation. A mathematical model consisting of two reaction-diffusion subsystems is presented such that ...
From the journals
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-04)
Three citations with comments of interest to Hospitalists.
ID corner : Swine flu -- clinical reports
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-11)
Citations with links to two clinical reports on H1N1 (swine) flu.
ID corner : intraabdominal infections
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-04)
Citation and link to an article on evidence-based guidelines for the antibiotic treatment of intraabdominal infections from the IDSA.
Dealing with hypertensive urgencies
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-10)
Patients presenting with severe hypertension can often be alarming for house officers and family members. Systolic blood pressures > 180 mm Hg, with or without a diastolic blood pressure >120, have been known to progress ...