Hospital Medicine
- Delirium in hospitalized patients: Risks and benefits of antipsychotics
No drug is approved for delirium, but antipsychotics can be used in certain situations.
- Necrotizing pancreatitis: Diagnose, treat, consult
Patients may need intensive care, nutritional support, antibiotics, and radiologic, endoscopic, or surgical interventions.
- 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.