May 3, 2023
Investigating inpatient hypertension
Medication is often not the best solution for elevated blood pressure in the hospital, an expert explained at Internal Medicine Meeting 2023.
Pearls on diabetes meds in periop care
Learn when to stop and start glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists, dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors, and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors.
Current internal medicine residents favor returning to in-person recruitment
Most internal medicine residents thought that virtual recruitment led medical students to apply to more programs and take more interviews, a fall 2021 survey found.
Procalcitonin algorithm reduced antibiotic use in COVID-19 inpatients
A Dutch intervention used procalcitonin levels in inpatients with COVID-19 to guide antibiotic use, with an algorithm discouraging prescriptions if levels were less than 0.25 ng/mL and recommending antibiotics for patients with levels above 0.5 ng/mL.
Higher ACS mortality in women vs. men may be related to acute heart failure
A retrospective study of 87,812 patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) found that those with acute heart failure were more likely to die and that women were more likely to present with acute heart failure than men.
New consult service dramatically increased use of medication for alcohol use disorder
A third of inpatients with alcohol use disorder who were seen by an addiction consult service during their stay received a new prescription for related medication, compared to less than 1% of similar patients hospitalized before the service launched.