Case 4
A 29-year-old man with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency room with a high fever, chills, sore throat, cough, shortness of breath,
A 29-year-old man with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency room with a high fever, chills, sore throat, cough, shortness of breath,
An 18-year-old patient with a PMH significant for childhood medulloblastoma requiring cerebellar resection, radiation, and chemotherapy all around age 5 and mild developmental delay presented
A 21-year-old, 37-week pregnant woman, G1P0, with a PMH significant for diet-controlled gestational diabetes presented to the hospital with regular uterine contractions. She was admitted
A 60-year-old woman with a PMH significant for hypertension, hypothyroidism, and frontotemporal dementia presented to the emergency department with one day of unsteady gait and
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage can be lethal, but fortunately, the management is usually cognitively straightforward. Most patients do fine. Our job is to put blood into the
Patients Lose Sleep in the Hospital Pain, noise, acute illness, stress, unfamiliar environment/bed, procedures, blood draws, and other diagnostic tests are a few of the
Atrial fibrillation is a very common arrhythmia in the hospital. Fortunately, it is usually easy to manage. In general, I treat a-fib with RVR in
There are two conventional strategies to treat alcohol withdrawal: symptom-driven administration of benzodiazepines, and phenobarbital monotherapy. Patients with alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) have relative GABA
“Brain Attack” Every stroke is different, but the principles of stroke management are always the same. An ischemic stroke occurs when there is an issue