General Hospital Medicine
Questions discussed in this category
Do you extend the course of fidaxomicin past initial 10 days to at least 3-7 days after completion of antibiotics?
For example, do you consider "cautious" IV fluids or otherwise consider early vasopressors?
Assume QTc is not prolonged, electrolytes are reasonably normal, and the patient is not already on heavy psychotropic polypharmacy.
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?
For example, would you consider alternatives to paracentesis (Denver shunt placement, CART therapy, or permanent tunneled catheters) that might better...
For example, do you find trending WBC, procalcitonin, CRP, etc., more or less helpful?
In particular, how do you reconcile situations where lung POCUS findings contradict other components of volume assessment (e.g. JVD, peripheral edema,...
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Papers discussed in this category
Annals of emergency medicine, 2006-01
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2019-01
Neurology. Clinical practice, 2020 Aug
Cureus, 2020 Nov 18
European journal of endocrinology, 2023 Aug 02
Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR, 2024 Jun
AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 2010-02
Journal of cardiac failure, 2021 Oct
JAMA, 1989 Feb 10