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“Bless Your Heart”—Update in Heart Failure
July 1, 2026
The session “Bless Your Heart—Update in Heart Failure” provided a high-yield, evidence-based review of recent trials and evolving strategies in the management of heart failure (HF), with a...
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Acute Brain Dysfunction: A Roadmap to the Prevention and Treatment of Coma, Delirium, and Agitation in the Critically Ill Patient
July 1, 2026
Acute brain dysfunction—encompassing delirium, coma, and agitation—is one of the most common and consequential complications of critical illness, yet it remains under-recognized and...
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Hot Takes: Addiction Medicine Made Easy for the Busy Hospitalist
July 1, 2026
As opioid-related hospitalizations and overdose deaths continue to surge in the U.S., the role of hospitalists in initiating treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) has never been more urgent. Many...
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Business Updates for the Hospitalist: The Top Business Articles of 2025 that Will Change the Way You Lead, Do Your Job, and Practice Medicine
July 1, 2026
This highly engaging talk by Christopher Russo, MD, reviewed high-impact articles from outside the medical literature and examined how knowledge from fields outside medicine can change the way...
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What’s New, What Matters: Implementing the 2025 ACLS Guidelines
July 1, 2026
Jessica Nave, MD, vice president for middle revenue cycle at Emory Healthcare and assistant professor of medicine in Emory’s division of hospital medicine, both in Atlanta, summarized the updated...
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Updates from the Frontier: Large Language Models, Diagnosis, and Clinical Reasoning
July 1, 2026
In an exciting demonstration of what could be the future of diagnosis and clinical reasoning, Daniel Restrepo, MD, SFHM, went toe-to-toe with an artificial intelligence (AI) tool known as Dr. CaBot....
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When Less is More: How to Provide Less Anticoagulant and Antiplatelet Treatment to Improve Outcomes
July 1, 2026
As hospitalists, we are often trained to err on the side of doing more, especially in the ways we have historically approached anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapies. Faced with the competing...
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When Less Is More: Aspirin in Patients with Chronic Coronary Syndrome Receiving Oral Anticoagulation
June 18, 2026
Mount Sinai Med-Lit Review Clinical Question: In patients with chronic coronary syndrome and high atherothrombotic risk on long-term oral anticoagulation, does the addition of aspirin improve...
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Evaluation of Optimal Duration of DAPT After PCI When Stratified by Bleeding Risk
June 18, 2026
Mount Sinai Med-Lit Review Clinical question: What is the optimal duration of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stent (DES) placement...
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High-Normal Potassium Levels Reduce Ventricular Arrhythmias and Related Adverse Outcomes in High-Risk Patients with ICDs
June 18, 2026
Mount Sinai Med-Lit Review Clinical question: Does actively increasing serum potassium to the high-normal range (4.5 to 5.0 mmol/L) reduce malignant ventricular arrhythmias, arrhythmia-related...