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How Is SIADH Diagnosed and Managed?
July 1, 2011
KEY POINTS: Clinical assessment of volume status is often inaccurate. Acute symptomatic hyponatremia is treated with 3% hypertonic saline. Chronic hyponatremia is managed with fluid restriction and salt tablets. Vasopressin receptor antagonists might play a role in chronic hyponatremia management.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Hospitalists discuss strategies for indigent transitions
July 1, 2011
Experts discuss barriers to treating indigent patients, medication management's role in safe transitions, and new programs to help the homeless and uninsured population
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Ultrasound More Common at the Bedside
July 1, 2011
A recent “Current Concepts” article in the New England Journal of Medicine (2011;364:749) by a pair of Yale University physicians asserts that the day is close at hand when ultrasound interpretations by clinicians at the patient’s bedside will become as routine in hospital care as the trusty stethoscope.
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Cause For Concern
July 1, 2011
Drug shortages disrupt operations, tax hospitalists' treatment patterns
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In the Literature: HM-Related Research You Need to Know
June 1, 2011
Physician reviews of the latest research, including eplerenone and heart failure mortality, fidaxomicin for C. difficile diarrhea, guidelines for intensive insulin therapy, and unplanned transfers to the ICU
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The Future of Better Patient Care
June 1, 2011
“Portable Ultrasound” pre-course unveils almost-limitless possibilities, hospitalist says
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HM11 BREAKOUT SESSIONS OVERVIEW
June 1, 2011
A roundup of key presentations spanning clinical, career, academic, and practice management issues
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HM11 Special Report: Pediatric Perils
June 1, 2011
Balanced, risk-based approach appropriate for ALTEs
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What Corticosteroid is Most Appropriate for treating Acute Exacerbations of CoPD?
June 1, 2011
Systemic corticosteroids are recommended for patients admitted with AECOPD, with benefits including shortened recovery time, improved lung function and hypoxemia, prolonged time to subsequent exacerbation, and reduced rates of treatment failure and hospital length of stay.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Experts discuss new anticoagulant therapies
June 1, 2011
Hospitalist Geno Merli and attorney Howard Bremer discuss new therapies and challenges to warfarin
