![1]()
News
ABIM and the future of maintaining certification
April 23, 2020
Beginning this year hospitalists will have a choice for how they maintain their certification.
![1]()
News
Latest data on COVID-19 patients with rheumatic diseases revealed in registry
April 23, 2020
Data for a total of 583 COVID-19 patients have now been made available.
Article
COVID-19 & Mental Health
April 23, 2020
Join us on Thursday, April 23, at 8:30 p.m. EST as we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the mental health of psychiatry patients and providers around the world.
News
Signature STEMI sign may be less diagnostic in the COVID-19 age
April 22, 2020
ST-segment elevation, often a ticket to the cath lab, may not indicate STEMI as reliably as before hospitals started to fill with COVID-19 patients, who may have other ST-segment–elevating conditions.
![1]()
News
Management of infants born to mothers with COVID-19
April 22, 2020
Clinicians should protect themselves with Contact and Droplet PPE at all times until an infant’s viral status is known.
![1]()
News
ACEI/ARBs linked with survival in hypertensive, Chinese COVID-19 patients
April 22, 2020
A study drawing from 1,128 hypertensive, Chinese patients with COVID-19 suggested that those on an ACEI or ARB had better 28-day survival.
![1]()
Opinion
Transitions: From editor to president
April 21, 2020
Dr. Danielle Scheurer is the outgoing medical editor of The Hospitalist, and president-elect of SHM.
Article
COVID-19 strikes hard at state-run veterans nursing homes
April 21, 2020
In early March, 35 residents in the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington, died due to complications associated with COVID-19. And that facility thus became the first example of how extremely...
News
Mislabeled clopidogrel lot recalled, may contain simvastatin
April 21, 2020
International Laboratories has recalled one lot of clopidogrel tablets packaged in bottles of 30 tablets because it may contain simvastatin instead of clopidogrel.
![1]()
News
Doctors push back on treating COVID-19 as HAPE
April 21, 2020
The pathophysiological mechanism of HAPE is a “fundamentally different phenomenon” than what is seen in COVID-19–related ARDS, experts noted in a recent commentary.
