Chief residents of the NYU Langone Internal Medicine Residency give quick-and-easy, evidence-based answers to interesting questions posed by house staff, both in their clinics and on the wards.
Author: senior-chief
Clinical Correlations
Chief’s Inquiry Corner 10/27/22
October 27, 2022- Bellevue Inpatient: Is there a role for acetazolamide in acute decompensated heart failure with volume overload?
- Bellevue Outpatient: Who should undergo screening for Barrett’s Esophagus?
- VA Inpatient: How do you treat aspiration pneumonia?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner – 10/5/2022
October 5, 2022- Tisch/Kimmel Inpatient: What is the role for early rhythm control in patients with new atrial fibrillation?
- VA Outpatient: What medications are the most effective for treatment of diabetic neuropathy?
- Bellevue Inpatient: What treatment options exist for multidrug resistant tuberculosis?
Chief’s Inquiry Corner – 9/28/22
September 28, 2022- Bellevue Outpatient: What is the optimal duration of therapy for bisphosphates in osteoporosis?
- Bellevue Inpatient: What is the role of aggressive fluid resuscitation in acute pancreatitis?
- VA Inpatient: What is the treatment for allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner – 9/20/2022
September 20, 2022- Gouverneur Outpatient: What are indications for treatment in essential thrombocythemia?
- Bellevue Inpatient: Are patients with discoid lupus erythematosus at risk for systemic lupus erythematosus?
- VA Inpatient: What is the risk of and differential diagnosis for recurrent Bell’s Palsy?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner-9/13/22
September 13, 2022- Bellevue Outpatient: What are the indications for parathyroidectomy in patients with asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism?
- Bellevue Inpatient: What are treatments for acute dystonia?
- Tisch-Kimmel Inpatient: How does Glucagon treat beta-blocker toxicity?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner-6/13/22
June 13, 2022- Bellevue Inpatient: How is antithrombin deficiency treated?
- VA Outpatient: Does incidentally detected common bile duct dilation require further evaluation?
- Brooklyn Inpatient: What is Carnett’s sign?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner – 6/6/22
June 6, 2022- Tisch-Kimmel Inpatient: Is low voltage a sensitive marker for detecting pericardial effusions?
- Bellevue Inpatient: Is the use of rectal tubes supported in optimizing the healing of sacral ulcers?
- Bellevue Outpatient: What is the updated guidance regarding Hepatitis B vaccination?