This online Clinics series provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions that practicing hospitalists face daily. This issue of Hospital Medicine Clinics is Guest Editored by Dr. Mark Thoelke. Dr. Thoelke has assembled a group of expert authors to review the following topics: Diastolic Dysfunction; Acute Bronchospasm and Asthma; Fungemia in the Hospitalized Patient; Renal-Obsructive Uropathy; Diagnosis and Management of Cholecystitis, Choledocholithiasis, and Other Bililary Disorders; Reservible Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome; Paraneoplastic Disorders; All You Need to Know About Prescribing Methadone; Caring for the Actively Dying; and When the patient wants to leave against medical advice: Considerations for the hospitalist and the patient.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issues - p. 6 6. Preface - p. 7 7. Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction - p. 8 8. Wheezing - p. 15 9. Fungal Infections in the Hospitalized Patient - p. 22 10. Obstructive Uropathy - p. 30 11. Acute Cholecystitis, Choledocholithiasis, and Acute Cholangitis - p. 36 12. Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome - p. 43 13. Paraneoplastic Syndromes - p. 48 14. Discharges Against Medical Advice - p. 61 15. Prescribing Methadone - p. 66 16. Caring for the Actively Dying - p. 72
This online Clinics series provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions that practicing hospitalists face daily. This issue of Hospital Medicine Clinics is Guest Editored by Dr. Mark Thoelke. Dr. Thoelke has assembled a group of expert authors to review the following topics: Diastolic Dysfunction; Acute Bronchospasm and Asthma; Fungemia in the Hospitalized Patient; Renal-Obsructive Uropathy; Diagnosis and Management of Cholecystitis, Choledocholithiasis, and Other Bililary Disorders; Reservible Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome; Paraneoplastic Disorders; All You Need to Know About Prescribing Methadone; Caring for the Actively Dying; and When the patient wants to leave against medical advice: Considerations for the hospitalist and the patient.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Forthcoming Issues - p. 6 6. Preface - p. 7 7. Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction - p. 8 8. Wheezing - p. 15 9. Fungal Infections in the Hospitalized Patient - p. 22 10. Obstructive Uropathy - p. 30 11. Acute Cholecystitis, Choledocholithiasis, and Acute Cholangitis - p. 36 12. Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome - p. 43 13. Paraneoplastic Syndromes - p. 48 14. Discharges Against Medical Advice - p. 61 15. Prescribing Methadone - p. 66 16. Caring for the Actively Dying - p. 72
