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In Patients with Severe Pneumonia or ARDS, Corticosteroids Reduce Short-Term Mortality without Increasing Infections
August 3, 2026
Clinical Question: Does the use of systemic corticosteroids affect short-term mortality in adults with severe pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)? Background: While...
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Update in Perioperative Medicine: What the Past Year Taught Us
July 1, 2026
Every year, the perioperative medicine update at Converge gives hospitalists a reason to recalibrate, and the Nashville session (anchored, fittingly, around an 84-year-old woman with the kind of...
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Optimizing Transitions of Care: Lessons from a Hospital Medicine Transitions Clinic
July 1, 2026
Nashville has always understood that the magic happens in the handoff, the moment one musician passes the melody to the next without missing a beat. In hospital medicine, that handoff is at...
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Advances in Pharmacotherapy: New Drugs Hospitalists Should Know
July 1, 2026
This session was presented by Niti Patel, MD, PharmD, assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and Thomas Chen, MD, PharmD, assistant professor of...
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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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Peripheral Vasopressors Safe in Early Sepsis Resuscitation
June 18, 2026
Mount Sinai Med-Lit Review Clinical question: Can vasopressors be safely administered through a peripheral line? Background: Traditionally, clinicians have administered vasopressors through central...
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Extended Low-Dose Apixaban After Provoked VTE Reduces Recurrence in Selected Patients
June 18, 2026
Mount Sinai Med-Lit Review Clinical question: Among patients with provoked venous thromboembolism (VTE) and ongoing risk factors, does extending anticoagulation with low-dose apixaban reduce...
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PrEP and PEP: What Hospitalists Need to Know
June 1, 2026
Although it may not always be top of mind for hospitalists, discussing or prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can...
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Pandemic Experiences Impact Future Clinical Training for Med Students and Residents
April 6, 2026
Many hospitalists remember what their work was like during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially during its initial days and before a COVID-19 vaccine was available. Work habits and patient volumes...
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What’s New in the 2025 IDSA Updates for Complicated UTIs?
April 6, 2026
Case: An 80-year-old man with Alzheimer’s dementia presents with fever, worsening suprapubic discomfort, and new right flank pain. He began ciprofloxacin the day before for a presumed urinary tract...