Table of Contents
Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
I Inpatient Medicine 1
1 Patients With Abdominal Pain Sayeeda Azra Jabeen 3
2 A 64-year-old Woman Who Is Found Unresponsive Mohamad Alhosaini 19
3 A 65-year-old Woman With Chest Pain Mohamad Alhosaini 31
4 An 80-year-old Man With Generalized Weakness Mohamad Alhosaini 43
5 A 48-year-old Man With Restlessness, Tremulousness, and Hypertension Se Young Han 55
6 Arrhythmias Sayeeda Azra Jabeen Susan Thompson Hingle 65
7 A 40-year-old Man With Chest Pain Muralidhar Papireddy Se Young Han Susan Thompson Hingle 81
8 A 64-year-old Man With Increasing Dyspnea MuhammadFarooq Asghar 97
9 A 40-year-old Woman With Shortness of Breath Siegfried W. B. Yu 105
10 Delirium Edgard Cumpa 121
11 Diabetes Emergencies Deepika Nallala Michael Jakoby 127
12 A 64-year-old Male Requiring Diabetes Management in the Hospital Michael Jakoby Owaise M. Y. Mansuri 137
13 Diarrhea in Hospitalized Patients Sayeeda Azra Jabeen 145
14 An 86-year-old Woman With Fever and Chills Muhammad Farooq Asghar 153
15 A 76-year-old Woman With a UTI and Hypernatremia Mohamad Alhosaini 169
16 Gastrointestinal Bleeding Zak Gurnsey 177
A 70-year-old Female With Acute Onset of Dyspnea Thamilvani Thiruvasahar 189
18 An 89-year-old Man With Acute Respiratory Failure Requiring Intubation ZakGurnsey 197
19 A 77-year-old Man in Need of Nutritional Support Vajeeha Tabassum 205
20 An 80-year-old Woman With Pain After a Fracture Repair Alan J. Deckard 217
21 A 78-year-old Woman in Need of a Preoperative Risk Assessment Robert Robinson 225
22 A 72-year-old Man With Pneumonia Robert Robinson 235
23 Respiratory Failure Christine I. Todd 247
24 A 60-year-old Woman With Loss of Consciousness Edgard Cumpa 253
25 A 25-year-old Patient With Fever, Vomiting, and Flank Pain Tiffany Leung 259
26 A 78-year-old Woman With Slurred Speech Zak Gurnsey 269
27 A 21-year-old Female With Loss of Consciousness Muralidhar Papireddy Se Young Han Susan Thompson Hingle 275
28 A 32-year-old Woman with Fever, Chills, and Weakness Status Post a Blood Transfusion Vajeeha Tabassum 293
29 A 75-year-old Man With Dyspnea and Pleuritic Chest Pain Robert Robinson 305
II Outpatient Medicine 313
30 A 55-year-old Woman With Cough and Shortness of Breath Siegfried W. B. Yu 315
31 Cancer Screening Omar A. Vargas 327
32 A 65-year-old Man With a GFR of 55 Omar A. Vargas 335
33 A 46-year-old Woman With Chronic Pain Stacy Sattovia 343
34 A 37-year-old Woman With Low Energy and Difficulty Sleeping Tiffany Leung 349
35 A 55-year-old Woman is Diagnosed with Diabetes Owaise M. Y. Mansuri Michael Jakoby 365
36 A 69-year-old Man Diagnosed With Metastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Vajeeha Tabassum 375
37 An 80-year-old Woman With a Headache Siegfried W. B. Yu 383
38 Evaluation and Management of Lipid Disorders Chaitanya K. Mamillapalli Michael Jakoby 399
39 A 55-year-old Man With a History of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 and Hypertension Omar A. Vargas 417
40 Immunizations and Other Preventive Medicine Omar A. Vargas 431
41 A 36-year-old Woman With Nasal Congestion Sheryll Mae C. Soriano 445
42 A 22-year-old Woman With Urinary Frequency and Suprapubic Pain Muralidhar Papireddy Susan Thompson Hingle 455
III Transitions of Care 463
43 A 76-year-old Man Discharged After an Upper GI Bleed Christine I. Todd 465
44 A Woman With Mild Dementia and a CHF Exacerbation Christine I. Todd 473
45 A Patient in Respiratory Distress Christine I. Todd 479
46 A 78-year-old Woman Taking Multiple Medications Tiffany Leung J. Mark Ruscin 483
47 A 63-year-old Man With Urosepsis Tiffany Leung 493
48 A 72-year-old Man With Social Issues Stacy Sattovia 503
Index 509
