PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Andrea De Jesús Martínez Chief PEM Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine | Texas Children’s Hospital Instagram: @bcm_pemfellows Co-author: Benjamin Silva, MD, MPH The Case A 4-year-old male with no significant past medical history presents with headache and vomiting. At that visit, his physical exam was normal. Cureus vol.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

These factors may have impacted their diet, physical activity, and medications, thus impacting their creatinine levels and the inputs that we use for GFR. education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Differentiate Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia from typical bacterial and viral pneumonia based on history, physical exam findings, and diagnostic testing. After a lull during the COVID 19 pandemic, cases reemerged in 2023 and continued to climb into 2024. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2025 Feb 17. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000003338.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

He had easy work of breathing, and physical exam was only notable for decreased breath sounds over the left lower lobe. Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. 2023 Jul 24. On arrival, the patient was febrile to 38.3C.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Hosp Pediatr (2023) 13 (1): 66–71 Routine laboratory testing does not need to be performed. Systematic change so that routine laboratory testing is not required by facilities accepting patients for inpatient psychiatric treatment. Implementation of a Medical Clearance Algorithm for Psychiatric Emergency Patients.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

The law directs Texas universities and hospitals to lead the research. A 2024 study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that military veterans with brain injuries saw major mental and physical improvements after just one ibogaine session. It also makes sure the state keeps a share in future profits if the drug is approved.

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PEMBlog

MAY 24, 2023

This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. Deaths due to physical restraint. Physical and chemical restraints. Patient that are agitated should always be treated with dignity and respect. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2012 Jan;109(3):27-32.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Houck — In August 2023 the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recommended that the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) reschedule marijuana from schedule I under the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) to schedule III. By Larry K. HHS forwards FDA’s analysis and recommendation to DEA.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

’ Though it often does not come with the attending salary, medical trainees are getting paid to perform a service, and hospitals provide retirement plans to these individuals. Saving $23,000 when the national average unweighted resident salary in 2023, according to AAMC data , was $63,800. Set it and forget it!

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

MONDAY, June 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund studies of the long-term health effects of a 2023 Ohio train derailment that released more than 1 million pounds of hazardous chemicals into the soil, air and water.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Paramedics can provide life-saving treatment on the way to the hospital. Paramedics can provide immediate emergency interventions on the way to the hospital, including oxygen support and life-saving medications. Then, they’ll perform a physical examination.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. James 00:32 Good afternoon.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And so I think that’s why it has its moment now even in 2023. It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system. There’s the variation between the hospitals, feels like there’s cultural issues that play a role. So I just can’t keep going. Alex: That’s great. Eric: Yeah.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Updated 2023 Jul 17]. Her name is Emily Groopman, and she’s a current resident at Children’s National Hospital. You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. She didn’t die in the hospital. A farmer nearby came to. I’m gonna die.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

and its abuse may lead to only moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence. 29, 2023) (“Basis”); NPRM at 44,603. In 2023, HHS conducted a different approach, a two-part test, to determine whether marijuana has a CAMU. 21 U.S.C. § Basis at 45; NPRM at 44,613. Basis at 7-8; NPRM at 44,614.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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PEMBlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Updated 2023 Jun 26]. Approximately 1 half of the severe cases of vitamin k deficient bleeding are associated with parental refusal vitamin k during the birth and hospitalization. Home delivered infants don’t have access to immediate vitamin k prophylaxis at the same rates that hospitalized infants do. 1997 Jan;99(1).

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PEMBlog

APRIL 4, 2025

So as of the 2023-24 school year, about 3.3% 2023 translates to about 80,000 kids in the United States, and vaccination coverage varies across states. So in the 2023-24 school year. When a complete history and physical examination cannot identify a specific source of fever greater than 39 centigrade or 102.2

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. In our particular practice, we take care of a very large population of patients with ALS who of course have a lot of physical disability. Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

I think it was the 2023 World Series where Dusty Baker faced off as the manager of the Houston Astros against David Roberts. It was last month, a staff meeting where the leadership wanted to staff up the mornings and decrease the number of rounders, and they wanted to staff up the hospital admitter to the mornings.

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