Hospital Medicine
- Norwegian scabies
Norwegian scabies is extremely contagious, and outbreaks can spread in institutions.
- Heart failure guidelines: What you need to know about the 2017 focused update
Prevention, preserved ejection fraction, hypertension, iron, sleep apnea, and acute decompensation.
- Dancing sternal wires: A radiologic sign of sternal dehiscence
Loose fragments of bone and wire pose a danger of puncturing the heart, making sternal dehiscence a surgical emergency.
- Repeating blood cultures after initial bacteremia: When and how often?
Repeating blood cultures after an initial positive result is superfluous except in certain situations.
- Follow-up blood cultures are often needed after bacteremia
Without follow-up cultures, the adequacy of treatment can be difficult to assess.
- Managing malignant pleural effusion
Depending on the circumstances, options are observation, thoracentesis, an indwelling catheter, and chemical pleurodesis.
- Rapidly progressive pleural effusion
A 33-year-old nonsmoker presents with severe pleuritic chest pain; the differential diagnosis is broad.
- Do all hospital inpatients need cardiac telemetry?
Routine cardiac telemetry raises costs and does little.
- Geriatrics update 2018: Challenges in mental health, mobility, and postdischarge care
A review of study results from the last 2 years.
- Which patients with pulmonary embolism need echocardiography?
The decision should be based on clinical presentation, burden of pulmonary embolism, and other imaging fi ndings.