Hospital Medicine
- Postexposure management of infectious diseases
People who have been exposed to an infectious disease should be evaluated promptly and systematically.
- Watson, the game is a foot… or a palm
Sherlock Holmes I am not, but some useful clues are readily apparent if one is prepared to recognize them.
- Measuring both serum amylase and lipase for acute pancreatitis lowers quality and raises cost
Measuring lipase alone is sufficient.
- Postoperative delirium in a 64-year-old woman
Nine days after surgery, her mental status takes an abrupt turn for the worse. What is going on?
- Bedside manners: How to deal with delirium
Delirium is often overlooked. Clinical observation remains important.
- Another complication of cirrhosis
A patient with cirrhosis presents with acute abdominal pain and shock.
- Evidence helps, but some decisions remain within the art of medicine
In bacterial meningitis, precise diagnosis by lumbar puncture both offers benefit and poses risk.
- Submassive pulmonary embolism (December 2016)
Readers comment on submassive pulmonary embolism (December 2016).
- What stool testing is appropriate when diarrhea develops in a hospitalized patient?
Most cases are not due to infection, but Clostridium difficile is the most common infectious cause.