General Hospital Medicine   

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 find trending WBC, procalcitonin, CRP, etc., more or less helpful?

What situations prompt you to prescribe dexamethasone to complete a 10-day course at discharge?

In other words, are there benefits to identifying URI pathogens that do not necessarily have targeted therapies (e.g., rhinovirus, non-COVID-19 Corona...

While many US guidelines have supported a threshold of > 50k, there does not appear to be robust data to support it. Notably, the 2025 AABB and ICT...

How would you decide on the duration of antibiotics in this case?

For example, do you consider "cautious" IV fluids or otherwise consider early vasopressors?

Do you use the traditional strict limit of 1.5 L, or do you consider removing more volume if a patient appears to tolerate it?

In particular, how do you reconcile situations where lung POCUS findings contradict other components of volume assessment (e.g. JVD, peripheral edema,...