This new online Clinics series, Hospital Medicine Clinics, provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. This fourth issue in our growing online database covers essential updates in the following topics: atrial fibrillation; COPD; adult vaccines; inpatient care of chronic dialysis patients; evaluation and management of inpatient diarrhea; syncope; inpatient sickle cell; competency evaluation; prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers; and understanding and preventing diagnostic errors.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issues - p. 5 6. Foreword - p. 6 7. Preface - p. 7 8. Pharmacologic Risk Mitigation (β-Blockers, Statins, α-2-Agonists) - p. 8 9. Preoperative Pulmonary Evaluation and Risk Mitigation - p. 17 10. Postoperative Fevers - p. 24 11. Postoperative Renal Failure and Hyponatremia - p. 31 12. Cirrhosis as a Risk for Surgery - p. 41 13. Prosthetic Joint Infections - p. 47 14. Perioperative Glucose Management - p. 51 15. Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation - p. 57 16. Perioperative Medication Management - p. 63 17. Preoperative Clinics - p. 71
This new online Clinics series, Hospital Medicine Clinics, provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. This fourth issue in our growing online database covers essential updates in the following topics: atrial fibrillation; COPD; adult vaccines; inpatient care of chronic dialysis patients; evaluation and management of inpatient diarrhea; syncope; inpatient sickle cell; competency evaluation; prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers; and understanding and preventing diagnostic errors.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issues - p. 5 6. Foreword - p. 6 7. Preface - p. 7 8. Pharmacologic Risk Mitigation (β-Blockers, Statins, α-2-Agonists) - p. 8 9. Preoperative Pulmonary Evaluation and Risk Mitigation - p. 17 10. Postoperative Fevers - p. 24 11. Postoperative Renal Failure and Hyponatremia - p. 31 12. Cirrhosis as a Risk for Surgery - p. 41 13. Prosthetic Joint Infections - p. 47 14. Perioperative Glucose Management - p. 51 15. Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation - p. 57 16. Perioperative Medication Management - p. 63 17. Preoperative Clinics - p. 71
