ALLERGY/IMMUNOLOGY
- What to do when there is no allergist
- Getting rid of the low-risk penicillin allergy label
- New anaphylaxis guidelines
- Things we do for no reason: steroids for anaphylaxis?
- Class action: sorting out the overlap between penicillin and cephalosporins
CARDIOVASCULAR
- Wearables”: how new mobile technology is changing the detection and management of atrial fibrillation
- Going with the flozin: state-of-the-art CHF management
- Dual antiplatelet therapy after stenting: are we overdoing it?
- Perioperative anticoagulation in patients on DOACs
- How low should you go? Hemoglobin targets in acute coronary syndromes
- “Holiday heart”: the effect of alcohol consumption on atrial fibrillation
- Reducing readmissions for heart failure: best practices in discharge planning
- Overcoming diuretic resistance in heart failure
- Coronary CT: as good as cardiac catheterization?
- Post-op atrial fibrillation: to anticoagulate or not to anticoagulate?
- Rhythm control versus rate control for atrial fibrillation revisited
DERMATOLOGY
- Cellulitis: antibiotic dilemmas and when to call dermatology
- DRESSed to kill: drug reactions and other can't-miss dermatology diagnoses
- Cutaneous findings of systemic disease
- Diagnosing rashes in hospitalized patients
- Cellulitis or venous stasis? Demystifying the swollen red leg
- The importance of leg compression to prevent recurrent cellulitis of the leg
- Understanding the newest data about optimal treatment durations for cellulitis
DIAGNOSTICS
- Can't-miss ECG diagnoses
- Radiology pearls: identifying subtle findings on CXR
- Rapid-fire review of electrolyte, liver, and hematology cases
- Contrast or no contrast? Choosing the right imaging protocols
ENDOCRINE
- Dangers of SGLT2 inhibitors: euglycemic DKA and UTIs
- GLP-1 agonists for weight loss: hot takes for the hospitalist
- Challenging cases in insulin management
- Continuous glucose monitoring in hospitalized patients with diabetes
- New guidelines for the management of hyperglycemia
- Adrenal insufficiency: whom to treat and how to taper
- Pitfalls in managing thyroid disease in medically ill patients
- What to do about adrenal incidentalomas
- When to worry about pheochromocytoma
EQUITY
- Are you missing hypoxia? Racial bias in pulse oximetry
- Race-based reference ranges: end of an error?
- Anti-racism in hospital medicine, from triage to care transitions
- Inequities in organ transplantation
- Racial equity and pain management in the hospital
- Improving patient outcomes with interpreter services
- Providing top-notch inpatient care to patients with obesity
- Trauma-informed care in the hospital
GASTROINTESTINAL
- New guidelines for ascites and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis management
- New guidelines on management of upper and lower GI bleeds
- Optimal timing for intra-abdominal drainage in necrotizing pancreatitis
- Urgent endoscopy in acute GI bleeding: bad for patients?
- Managing the cirrhotic patient with bleeding and thrombosis
- Too soon? When to resume anticoagulation and antiplatelet agents after a GI bleed
- Terlipressin for hepatorenal syndrome: promise and peril
- Video capsule endoscopy: diagnostic procedure of choice for GI bleeds in the very elderly?
- Fluid resuscitation in acute pancreatitis: less is more
- Procalcitonin to guide antibiotic use in acute pancreatitis
- The newest risk scores to help manage patient with upper GI bleeds
- The optimal timing of endoscopy in patient with upper GI bleeds
- Current approaches to preventing post-ERCP pancreatitis
- Understanding the urgent indications for ERCP
GERIATRICS
- Rethinking the risk-benefit ratios of surgery and high-risk invasive procedures for older adults
- Anticoagulation selection in the elderly
- Update on pharmacotherapy for delirium
- Non-pharmacologic interventions for preventing delirium
- Preventing delirium in the high-risk geriatric patient: what works?
- Difficult cases in delirium management
- Less is more: polypharmacy and deprescribing in older patients
- Waking up patients to check vital signs: best practice or overdoing it?
HEMATOLOGIC
- Managing complex patients with bleeding and thrombosis
- More data on DOACs in obesity and kidney disease
- Diagnosing and managing thrombocytopenia
- Diagnostic pearls for anemia in the hospitalized patient
- IV iron: what you need to know
- Diagnosis and management of hypercoagulable states
- New venous thromboembolism guidelines
- Is it ever OK to stop anticoagulation in unprovoked venous thrombosis?
- Should we stop saying “provoked” vs “unprovoked” VTE?
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
- Intensive case-based review of inpatient antibiotic therapy
- Short-course antibiotics for common infections
- New antibiotics for MRSA and multidrug-resistant Gram-negative rods
- Fecal transplantation: the best first-line treatment for C. difficile?
- Fecal microbiota enemas to prevent recurrent C. difficile: more than just a flash in the bedpan?
- Oral fecal microbiota therapy for C. difficile: the natural goodness of stool, now in a pill!
- When are oral drugs appropriate for bacteremia?
- When should we consult ID for bacteremia?
- MRSA bacteremia: is vancomycin enough?
- The inpatient with HIV: what the hospitalist needs to know
- Pearls for interpreting culture and sensitivity data
- New guidelines for endocarditis from injection drug use
- When should we cover for MRSA pneumonia?
- Breaking the cycle in patients with recurrent UTIs
- New treatment options for complicated UTIs
PALLIATIVE CARE
- Case-based approach to the complex palliative care patient
- What time is the right time to call palliative care?
- Evidence-based strategies for leading family meetings
- Serious illness conversations and documentation
- Toolkit for goals of care discussions
PERIOPERATIVE MEDICINE
- The latest on perioperative aspirin, statins, beta blockers, and ACE inhibitors
- Troponins and the perioperative patient: recent guideline recommendations
- To hold or not to hold: understanding the latest on perioperative medication management
- The importance of frailty in assessing perioperative risk
- Reducing pulmonary risk in perioperative patients
- Perioperative anticoagulation: when should patients be bridged?
PREGNANCY
- Best practices for diabetes and hypertension management in pregnancy
- HELLP me: managing medical complications in pregnant and postpartum patients
PSYCHIATRY
- Pearls for managing personality disorders in the hospital
- Perioperative management of medications for psychiatric diseases
- Diagnostic yield of neuroimaging for common psychiatric presentations
PULMONARY/CRITICAL CARE
- Tailored steroid therapy in acute exacerbation of COPD
- State-of-the-art treatment for COPD exacerbations
- Current recommendations for high-flow and supplemental O2
- New Surviving Sepsis guidelines
- Updated 2023 GOLD guidelines: triple therapy
- Fluids in septic shock: how much is enough?
- Short-course antibiotics in COPD exacerbations
RENAL
- Dapagliflozin and reduction of progression of chronic kidney disease
- New data: early renal replacement therapy in acute kidney injury
- Dialysis access: what the hospitalist needs to know
- PICC and choose: IV access in ESRD patients
- Ironing it out: managing anemia in ESRD
- Diagnosis and management of acute glomerulonephritis
- Blood pressure management in end-stage renal disease
- The latest on managing hyperkalemia and hyperphosphatemia
- Diagnostic approach to acute kidney injury
- What can hospitalists do to slow CKD progression?
STROKE
- New AHA/ASA guidelines for stroke management
- Updates on mechanical thrombectomy for ischemic stroke
- Telestroke: an idea whose time has come?
- How long should we monitor for atrial fibrillation after stroke?
- Acute stroke and new atrial fibrillation: when to start anticoagulation?
- To DAPT or not to DAPT: antiplatelet therapy in stroke and TIA
- Approach to imaging in acute stroke syndromes
SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS
- Treating acute and chronic pain in patients with substance use disorders
- Management of complicated alcohol withdrawal
- New protocols for use of phenobarbital in alcohol withdrawal
- Microdosing for buprenorphine induction
Reducing the risk of opiate overdose at discharge
SYNCOPE
- Syncope: when to worry about cardiac causes
- New recommendations for the use of tilt table testing
- Diagnosing the patient with recurrent syncope
- Midodrine for vasovagal syncope?
- Identifying low-risk syncope patients
- Orthostatic vitals: are we doing it all wrong?