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History of Antibiotic Stewardship
October 1, 2025
Antibiotic stewardship—the coordinated effort to optimize antimicrobial use—is integral to hospital medicine, though its origins extend much earlier than contemporary clinical programs...
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Cardiac POCUS: A Bedside Window View of the Heart
October 1, 2025
Heart ultrasound image on a computer screen. In many hospitals across the nation, hospitalists assume leadership roles during rapid response and code blue events, especially in settings where...
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Operative Versus Non-Operative Treatment of Acute Cholecystitis in Older Adults with Multiple Comorbidities–Advocating for Definitive Care
July 31, 2025
Clinical question: In patients 65 years and older, with multimorbidity, and presenting with acute cholecystitis, is operative treatment more efficacious than non-operative treatment? Background:...
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Lung POCUS: The Hospitalist’s New Stethoscope
July 31, 2025
In the time it takes to order, perform, and upload a stat chest X-ray, a skilled clinician with an ultrasound probe can diagnose an early pneumothorax, confirm pulmonary edema, or eyeball a...
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Updates in Hospital Medicine 2025
July 2, 2025
Dustin T. Smith, MD, SFHM, academic hospitalist and assistant chief of medicine for education in the medical specialty care service line at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center and associate...
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Perioperative Medication Management Controversies
July 1, 2025
The session began with Alana Sigmund, MD, SFHM, medical director for arthroplasty at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, addressing the complex issue of perioperative medication management,...
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Heating Up: Febrile Neutropenia for the Hospitalist
July 1, 2025
“You will encounter neutropenic fever in your career as a hospitalist,” emphasized David Goese, MD, an academic hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at the Northwestern University...
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The Wholly Frail—Choose Your Own Surgical Adventure
July 1, 2025
This workshop presented participants with three case scenarios of older adults needing surgical interventions, including inpatient management after traumatic rib fracture, vascular surgery for...
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Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Big and Small
July 1, 2025
At SHM Converge 2025, Shelia Swartz, MD, MPH, associate professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, shared practical insights into the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to...
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Press Your Luck: Point-of-Care Ultrasound Video Trivia
July 1, 2025
Attendees at this SHM Converge 2025 workshop pulled up a chair, grabbed a pen (and maybe a pint…of coffee, that is), and braced themselves for a morning of high-stakes, low-stress competition....