Enhance Your Knowledge with Hospital Medicine Review

Stay updated with the latest in hospital medicine through our comprehensive series of one-hour continuing medical education lectures. Our expert faculty will guide you through the complexities, challenges, and complications that hospitalists face daily, covering topics such as co-management of surgical patients, consultation on non-internal-medicine hospitalized patients, and evaluation of inter-hospital transfers.

Key Takeaways

• Approach to Preoperative Evaluation, Testing, and Medication Management – Learn how to optimize the patient’s medical condition without simply stating, “Cleared for surgery.”
• In-Hospital Infections: Diagnosis and Management – Understand the importance of considering host factors, recent events, and exposures, as well as potential pathogens and drug reactions.
• Seizure/Status Epilepticus: Diagnosis and Management – Develop a high index of suspicion to diagnose seizures, epilepsy, and status epilepticus effectively.
• Tele-Health for Hospitalists – Discover how tele-hospitalist medicine can enhance patient care, increase access, and improve patient and provider satisfaction.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Discuss the importance of effective handoffs related to patient safety
• Recognize the main components of effective inpatient heart failure care
• List the hospital-onset infections commonly found in hospitalized patients
• Summarize respiratory support management of patients with COVID-19
• Explain the role of skin testing and drug challenges in patients with antibiotic allergies
• Name the common causes of provoked seizures
• Describe the evaluation and management of septic arthritis and gout
• Outline the preventive strategies that can be used in treating status migrainosus to prevent future hospitalizations
• Discuss the evaluation and management of acute kidney injury in hospitalized patients
• Summarize the adverse effects of bleeding on surgical patient outcomes

Topics and Speakers

Our esteemed faculty will cover a wide range of topics, including:

• Care Transitions in Hospital Medicine – Jeanne M. Farnan, MD, MHPE and Vineet M. Arora, MD, MAPP
• Approach to Preoperative Evaluation, Testing, and Medication Management – Steven L. Cohn, MD, MACP, SPHM, FRCP
• Perioperative Evaluation and Management for Noncardiac Surgery – Steven L. Cohn, MD, MACP, SPHM, FRCP
• Management of Decompensated Heart Failure – Michelle M. Kittleson, MD
• Cardiac Arrhythmias – Diagnosis and Management – Bruce A. Koplan, MD, MPH
• COPD and Acute Pneumonias (Bacterial and Viral) – Diagnosis and Management – Kathleen Haley, MD
• In-Hospital Infections – Diagnosis and Management – Jennifer A. Johnson, MD
• What Hospitalists Should Know About COVID-19 – Amanda Klinger, MD
• Antibiotic-Associated Allergy, Anaphylaxis, and Desensitization – Diagnosis and Management – Aleena Banerji, MD
• In-Hospital Kidney Injury and Disorders of Water/Electrolyte Balance – Diagnosis and Management – Timothy Yau, MD
• Disorders of Coagulation – Diagnosis and Management – Catherine Hayward, MD, PhD, FRCPC
• In-Hospital Oncologic Emergencies – Diagnosis and Management – Evan Stewart, MD and Perry H. Dubin, MD, MPH
• Endocrine Society Clinical Guideline Management of Hyperglycemia in Hospitalized Adult Patients in Non-Critical Care Settings – Mary Korytkowski, MD
• Management of Acute Intoxication and Withdrawal in Persons with Unsafe Use of Licit and Illicit Substances – Christopher William Shanahan, MD, MPH
• In-Hospital Dermatological Issues – Diagnosis and Management – Steven T. Chen, MD, MPH
• Coma – Diagnosis, Management, and Prognosis – Craig A. Williamson, MD, MS
• Inpatient Neuromuscular Issues – Diagnosis and Management – Carl Gold, MD, MS
• Acute Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Stroke – Diagnosis and Management – Babak Navi, MD, MS
• Seizure-Status Epilepticus – Diagnosis and Management – Tracey A. Milligan, MD, MS, FAAN, FAES, FANA
• Headache-Status Migrainosus – Diagnosis and Management – Angeliki Vgontzas, MD
• Dizziness – Diagnosis and Management – Aaron L. Berkowitz, MD, MS
• Delirium – incl. Post-Operative – Diagnosis and Management – Vanja Douglas, MD
• Acute Myocardial Infarction – Diagnosis and Management – Grant W. Reed, MD, MSc
• Upper Quadrants Bonanza – Evidence-Based Pearls on Abnormal Liver Function Tests, Upper GI Bleeding, and Pancreatitis – Zahir Kanjee, MD, MPH, FACP
• Update in Hospital Medicine – Rheumatology – Derrick J. Todd, MD, PhD
• In-Hospital Psychiatric Disease – Diagnosis and Management – Sejal Shah, MD
• Principles of Acute Pain Management – Jason D. Ross, MD
• Principles of In-Hospital Palliative Care – Steven Pantilat, MD
• Neurological Examination of the Hospitalized Patient – Raymond Price, MD
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Ischemic Colitis in Hospitalized Patients – Vanessa Mitsialis, MD
• Womens Health Issues in Hospitalized Patients – Mary A. ONeal, MD, FAANS
• Social Determinants of Health in Hospital Medicine – Zanthia Wiley, MD
• Learning from Mistakes in the Hospital Setting – Martin A. Samuels, MD
• Tele-Health for Hospitalists – Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach, MD

Date of Original Release: May 15, 2023