American journal of hospital medicine, volume 2, issue 1 (2018 January-March)

 

Volume 2 Issue 1. January-March 2018 Contents

  • Table of Contents
    • Table of Contents
  • Review Article
    • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Review for the Hospitalist / Shilpa Haldal, Jonathan Beary, Premkumar Nattanmai, Pravin George, Christopher Newey
  • Original Article
    • A Framework to Tackle Risk Identification and Presentation Challenges in Sepsis / Muge Capan, Danielle Mosby, Kristen Miller, Jun Tao, Pan Wu, William Weintraub, Rebecca Kowalski, Ryan Arnold
  • Case Reports
    • Acute Esotropia in the Setting of Heroin Withdrawal / Bokka Satish, Pesala Sivaprasad, Pradeep Bollu
    • Headache: Could it be Esophageal Cancer? / Mihir Brahmbhatt, Abdul-rahman Abdel-karim, Navanshu Arora
  • Ask a Specialist
    • Ask a Pathologist / Jessica Kneib, Emily Coberly
  • ID Corner
    • Influenza Update / Christian Rojas-Moreno
  • Conference Calendar
    • Conference Calendar / Harleen Chela

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Recent Submissions

  • Conference calendar (AJHM, volume 2, issue 1, 2018) 

    Chela, Harleen (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2018-01)
    Calendar of hospital medicine conferences (2018).

  • ID Corner : Influenza update 

    Rojas-Moreno, Christian (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2018-01)
    This flu season has been especially bad. As of epidemiological week 4 (week ending on January 27th), overall hospitalizations are now the highest we've seen in recent years and flu associated deaths in children and adults ...

  • Ask a pathologist 

    Kneib, Jessica; Coberly, Emily (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2018-01)
    This article answers the question: After ordering a type and screen I was notified by the blood bank that my patient has cold autoantibodies. Does this mean that my patient has a cold agglutinin disease?

  • Headache : Could it be esophageal cancer? 

    Brahmbhatt, Mihir; Abdel-karim, Abdul-rahman; Arora, Navanshu (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2018-01)
    Brain metastasis in patients with primary esophageal carcinoma is rare and has a poor prognosis. Here we report a case with brain metastasis as the initial presentation for patient's esophageal cancer.

  • Acute esotropia in the setting of heroin withdrawal 

    Satish, Bokka; Sivaprasad, Pesala; Bollu, Pradeep (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2018-01)
    Acute onset of concomitant esotropia presenting with diplopia can be seen in the setting of heroin withdrawal. We report a case of acute esotropia in a young white male during heroin withdrawal. A sudden onset of eye ...

  • A framework to tackle risk identification and presentation challenges in sepsis 

    Capan, Muge; Mosby, Danielle; Miller, Kristen; Tao, Jun; Wu, Pan; Weintraub, William; Kowalski, Rebecca; Arnold, Ryan (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2018-01)
    Sepsis trajectories, including onset and recovery, can be difficult to assess, but electronic health records (EHRs) can accurately capture sepsis as a dynamic episode.

  • Acute ischemic stroke management review for the hospitalist 

    Haldal, Shilpa; Beary, Jonathan; Nattanmai, Premkumar; George, Pravin; Newey, Christopher (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2018-01)
    The treatment of acute ischemic stroke is dependent on timely recognition. After ensuring airway, respiratory and circulatory stability, NIHSS should be performed and urgent CT scan obtained. If no exclusions exist, ...

  • Table of Contents 

    (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2018-01)