Hospital Medicine
- Comfort care: Creating a plan for hospitalized patients and their families
Comfort care plans are always individualized and should naturally evolve as the patient’s clinical status changes.
- Hyperactive delirium in hospitalized older adults: Balancing medication choices and QTc prolongation risk
Medications for managing delirium symptoms, particularly antipsychotics, are associated with prolongation of the QT interval, which is a risk factor for the development of fatal arrhythmias.
- Hematochezia in a patient with end-stage renal disease
The patient developed gastrointestinal bleeding after being started on intravenous heparin following thrombectomy and angioplasty for acute limb ischemia.
- A new direction in pain management?
It would be nice to have a treatment option for pain that is less limited by side effects, cognitive dysfunction, addiction potential, and red tape.
- Suzetrigine: A novel nonopioid systemic analgesic
The systemic sodium channel blocker suzetrigine may serve as another option for multimodal postoperative analgesia regimens and for managing acute nonsurgical pain.
- Acute transient phlebitis after a morphine infusion
Prominent ascending erythema outlining the infused vein and its proximal branches developed quickly after infusion.
- Failure to thrive in hospitalized older adults: More than a ‘social admission’
Failure to thrive documented as an admitting diagnosis presents an opportunity to identify, articulate, and begin to ameliorate the true underlying causes of the patient’s health deficits.