Gastroenterology

General Hospital Medicine   

Questions discussed in this category


For example, anticoagulation for recent, significant PE or dual antiplatelet therapy for recent MI, but requiring urgent procedures such as biopsy of ...

How do you monitor for prolonged QTc in this situation (i.e., telemetry, serial EKGs, etc.)?

If the patient does not have underlying diabetes, do the benefits of an insulin drip for this indication outweigh the risks?

For example, do you routinely supplement with calcium carbonate, magnesium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide, simethicone, sucralfate, etc.?


Papers discussed in this category


Microbes and infection, 2024 May 06

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 2012 Apr

International journal of pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology, 1991 Nov-Dec

The American journal of medicine, 1991 Aug 08

Gut, 1990 Jul

The New England journal of medicine, 2021 Mar 04

Annals of internal medicine, 2021 Nov 23

Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, 2024 Oct 29