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Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner-6/13/22
June 13, 2022- Bellevue Inpatient:Â How is antithrombin deficiency treated?
- VA Outpatient:Â 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:Â Is low voltage a sensitive marker for detecting pericardial effusions?
- Bellevue Inpatient:Â Is the use of rectal tubes supported in optimizing the healing of sacral ulcers?
- Â Bellevue Outpatient:Â What is the updated guidance regarding Hepatitis B vaccination?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner-5/31/22
May 31, 2022- Tisch-Kimmel Inpatient: Are the rumors true? Is there a new oral carbapenem in town?
- Bellevue Inpatient: What are the clinical features of monkeypox?
- Â Bellevue Outpatient: What is Achenbach syndrome (also known as paroxysmal finger hematoma [PFH] or blue finger syndrome)?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner – 5/23/22
May 24, 2022- VA Outpatient:Â What should the threshold be to send a JAK2 mutation test?
- NYU GFP: When should we consider sending a workup for hereditary hemochromatosis?
- Bellevue Outpatient:Â When should we consider sending flow cytometry as part of the workup for hematologic malignancy?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner-5/16/22
May 16, 2022- Bellevue Inpatient:Â What is systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma? (Thanks to Melissa Chiang and her team for this question during rounds with Dr. Abramson!)
- Â VA Outpatient:Â What are the updates to the guidelines regarding initial treatment for asthma?
- Bellevue Outpatient:Â What are the updated guidelines for initiation of aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner-5/9/22
May 9, 2022- Bellevue Inpatient: Should I correct the sodium for hyperglycemia when calculating an anion gap? (Written by Kirsten Salline, PGY-3 on teaching elective!)
- Tisch-Kimmel Inpatient:Â What is nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) and when should the diagnosis be suspected? (Written by Kirsten Salline, PGY-3 on teaching elective!)
- VA Outpatient: How does malignancy lead to hypercalcemia, and what is the clinical significance?
Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner – 5/2/22
May 2, 2022- Bellevue Inpatient: According to the new 2022 guidelines from the AHA/ACC on the management of heart failure, how should we be approaching patients with HFmrEF (mid-range EF)?
- Tisch-Kimmel Inpatient: According to the new 2022 guidelines from the AHA/ACC how should we be approaching the management of patients with confirmed wild-type or variant transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis? (do you see a pattern here?!)
- VA Outpatient:Â In patients with known heart failure who we are managing over time in clinic, is there a certain frequency of following imaging (such as transthoracic echo) we should be abiding by? (really excited about cardiology this week)