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Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2022
July 5, 2023
In 2022, a New York Times headline declared, “Saving kids is bad business in America.”1 Pediatric hospitalists were faced with an unprecedented winter surge due to the “tripledemic” of...
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Syncope Evaluation: Evidence-Based and Economical
July 5, 2023
Dr. Daniel Dressler started his evidence-based evaluation of the syncope presentation by polling the audience with a few cases and questions regarding syncope. Before finding out the correct answers,...
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The 2022 AAP Newborn Jaundice Guideline: Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in the Newborn Infant 35 or More Weeks of Gestation
July 5, 2023
Dr. Holmes presented the 2022 American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Practice Guideline for Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in the Newborn Infant 35 or More Weeks of Gestation. A large, diverse...
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Firearms and the Pediatrician
July 5, 2023
Dr. Webb started the presentation by orienting attendees to the epidemiology of pediatric gun violence in the U.S., including the racial and ethnic disparities in pediatric firearm mortality. Guns...
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Great Debate: POCUS Versus the Physical Exam
July 5, 2023
Traditionally, diagnosing heart failure (HF) in clinical practice relied on comprehensive medical history, physical examination, and laboratory and imaging tests. However, recent advancements have...
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Hospitalists Driving LOS Optimization
July 5, 2023
In our current post-COVID-19 world, few topics come up more frequently in hospitalist meetings than length of stay (LOS). The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted profit margins across the...
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Experts Say Racism a Too-common Factor in Care, and Offer Fixes
July 5, 2023
Saying that structural racism permeates more clinical situations than hospitalists are typically aware of, a panel of speakers at SHM Converge in March offered a framework that physicians can use to...
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Lessons in Redeployment from Adult Hospitalists
May 1, 2023
Diverse mid-adult nurses, mature adult hospital administrators, and senior adult doctors are standing around a table in a hospital board room. They are reviewing spreadsheets and charts containing...
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Experts Offer Guidance on Transitioning Children to Adult Care
December 1, 2022
LAKE BUENA VISTA—Transitioning a child from pediatric to adult care can be a sensitive process fraught with anxiety, and there is fairly little guidance on how to do it well, panelists said here at...
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In Caring for Afghan Refugees, Hospitalists Discover New Capabilities
December 1, 2022
LAKE BUENA VISTA—When leaders in the pediatric hospitalist service at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis were asked to lead the medical care for a mass influx of Afghan refugees after the...