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What is your approach to intractable hiccups of uncertain etiology in hospitalized patients?

Are there any key diagnostic considerations? What pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions do you find most helpful?
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Hospital Medicine · UCSD School of Medicine
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Most cases I have seen are more persistent than intractable hiccups. Similar to intractable hiccups, it would involve looking for anything reversible: GERD, gastric distention or paresis, medication effects, or metabolic abnormalities. I typically start with reassurance that the hiccups will resolve...

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