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Abstract
This online Clinics series provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. The eleventh issue in our growing online database, edited by Christopher Kim, covers essential updates in the following topics: diagnosis and management of valvular heart disease, sepsis, infections in hospitalized immunocompromised patients, acid base disorders, subacute bacterial peritonitis, delirium, acute pain, and ophthalmologic emergencies, as well as transfusion medicine and hospital-based QI initiatives.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover\r | Cover | ||
| Contributors | A1 | ||
| Consulting Editor | A1 | ||
| Editor | A1 | ||
| Authors | A1 | ||
| Contents | A4 | ||
| Hospital Medicine Clinics\r | A7 | ||
| Foreword | A8 | ||
| Preface | A9 | ||
| Diagnosis and Management of Valvular Heart Disease | e305 | ||
| Aortic stenosis | e306 | ||
| Aortic regurgitation | e312 | ||
| Mitral stenosis | e316 | ||
| Mitral regurgitation | e321 | ||
| Right-sided valvular heart disease | e326 | ||
| References | e328 | ||
| Diagnosis and Management of Acid-Base Disorders | e334 | ||
| Case examples of acid-base disorders | e345 | ||
| Case 1 | e345 | ||
| Case 2 | e346 | ||
| Case 3 | e347 | ||
| References | e347 | ||
| Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis | e350 | ||
| Definitions | e351 | ||
| Epidemiology | e352 | ||
| Patient evaluation and diagnosis | e352 | ||
| Patient Management | e354 | ||
| Procedures | e355 | ||
| Therapy | e357 | ||
| Clinical guidelines | e359 | ||
| Performance improvement | e359 | ||
| References | e359 | ||
| An Approach to the Evaluation and Management of Vasculitis | e362 | ||
| Definition | e363 | ||
| Pathogenesis | e364 | ||
| History and examination | e369 | ||
| Diagnosis | e369 | ||
| Management | e373 | ||
| Prognosis | e375 | ||
| Clinical guidelines | e376 | ||
| References | e376 | ||
| Diagnosis and Management of Infections in Hospitalized Immunocompromised Patients | e378 | ||
| Definitions | e379 | ||
| Epidemiology | e380 | ||
| Approach to infection in the hospitalized transplant patient by organ system | e381 | ||
| Central Nervous System | e381 | ||
| Pulmonary system | e385 | ||
| What is appropriate empirical therapy for transplant recipients with pulmonary infection? | e388 | ||
| When should the transplant patient with pulmonary infection undergo bronchoscopy? | e388 | ||
| GI System | e388 | ||
| Hepatobiliary system | e391 | ||
| Performance Improvement | e394 | ||
| Clinical Guidelines | e394 | ||
| References | e394 | ||
| Diagnosis and Management of Acute Pain in the Hospitalized Patient | e396 | ||
| Definitions | e396 | ||
| Epidemiology | e397 | ||
| Pathophysiology | e397 | ||
| Evaluation and diagnosis | e398 | ||
| Treatment | e399 | ||
| Opioids | e400 | ||
| Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs | e400 | ||
| Acetaminophen | e401 | ||
| Patient-Controlled Analgesia | e401 | ||
| Nonpharmacologic Interventions | e401 | ||
| Nausea | e402 | ||
| Constipation | e403 | ||
| Sedation | e403 | ||
| Geriatric Populations | e403 | ||
| Renal Failure/Insufficiency | e403 | ||
| Liver Failure | e404 | ||
| Opioid-Tolerant Patients and Those with Addiction Risk | e404 | ||
| Performance improvement | e404 | ||
| Clinical guidelines | e405 | ||
| References | e405 | ||
| Diagnosis and Management of Ophthalmic Emergencies in the Hospital | e409 | ||
| Papilledema | e410 | ||
| Definitions | e410 | ||
| Differential Diagnosis | e410 | ||
| Epidemiology | e410 | ||
| History and Examination | e410 | ||
| Diagnosis | e412 | ||
| Management | e413 | ||
| Prognosis | e413 | ||
| Sudden vision loss | e414 | ||
| Epidemiology | e414 | ||
| History and Examination | e414 | ||
| Diagnosis | e415 | ||
| Management | e415 | ||
| Prognosis | e417 | ||
| Third cranial nerve palsy | e418 | ||
| Definitions | e418 | ||
| Epidemiology | e418 | ||
| History and Examination | e419 | ||
| Diagnosis | e420 | ||
| Isolated third nerve palsies | e420 | ||
| Management | e422 | ||
| Prognosis | e422 | ||
| Endogenous endophthalmitis | e423 | ||
| Definitions | e423 | ||
| Epidemiology | e423 | ||
| History and Examination | e424 | ||
| Diagnosis | e425 | ||
| Management | e426 | ||
| Prognosis | e427 | ||
| Performance Improvement | e427 | ||
| Clinical guidelines | e427 | ||
| References | e427 | ||
| Transfusion Medicine | e430 | ||
| Indications | e431 | ||
| Clinical guidelines | e432 | ||
| Performance improvement: when to transfuse | e432 | ||
| Performance improvement: complications of transfusions | e435 | ||
| FNHTR | e435 | ||
| Transfusion-related acute lung injury | e436 | ||
| Acute hemolytic reaction | e436 | ||
| TRIM | e437 | ||
| Practice improvement opportunities | e437 | ||
| References | e438 | ||
| Hospital-based Quality Improvement Initiatives | e441 | ||
| QI initiatives at the payer and delivery system level | e442 | ||
| Medicare | e442 | ||
| H-VBP | e442 | ||
| HRRP | e444 | ||
| Hospital-acquired Complications | e445 | ||
| Veterans Affairs | e447 | ||
| Regional collaborative programs | e447 | ||
| QI for hospitalists | e448 | ||
| Transitions of Care | e451 | ||
| HAIs | e451 | ||
| VTE | e452 | ||
| Summary | e453 | ||
| References | e453 | ||
| 2013 Literature Update in Hospital Medicine | e457 | ||
| Introduction | e458 | ||
| Background/Purpose | e458 | ||
| Study Design | e458 | ||
| Results | e458 | ||
| Comment | e459 | ||
| Background/Purpose | e459 | ||
| Study Design | e460 | ||
| Results | e460 | ||
| Summary | e460 | ||
| Background/Purpose | e460 | ||
| Study Design | e461 | ||
| Results | e461 | ||
| Summary | e461 | ||
| Background/Purpose | e461 | ||
| Study Design | e462 | ||
| Results | e462 | ||
| Summary | e462 | ||
| Background/Purpose | e463 | ||
| Design | e463 | ||
| Recommendations | e463 | ||
| Recommendation 1 | e463 | ||
| Recommendations 2 and 3 | e463 | ||
| Recommendations 4 and 5 | e463 | ||
| Recommendations 6, 7, 8, and 9 | e464 | ||
| Comment | e464 | ||
| Background/Purpose | e464 | ||
| Study Design | e464 | ||
| Results | e465 | ||
| Comment | e465 | ||
| Background/Purpose | e465 | ||
| Study Design | e465 |