Supraorbital Neuralgia
ICD-10 CODE G50.0 Clinical Syndrome The pain of supraorbital neuralgia is characterized as persistent pain in the supraorbital region and forehead with occasional sudden, shock-like paresthesias in the distribution of…
Chronic Paroxysmal Hemicrania
ICD-10 CODE R51 Clinical Syndrome Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, which is also known as Sjaastad syndrome, shares many characteristics of its more common analogue, cluster headache, but has several important differences…
Ice Pick Headache
ICD-10 CODE R51 Clinical Syndrome Ice pick headache is a constellation of symptoms consisting of paroxysms of stabbing jabs and jolts that occur primarily in the first division of the…
End-of-Life Care
End-of-Life Care Zahir Kanjee, MD, MPH Cindy Lien, MD You admit an 88-year-old man with advanced dementia after his fourth bout of aspiration pneumonia this year. He is stabilized and…
Communication in Academic Hospital Medicine
Communication in Academic Hospital Medicine Leah Marcotte, MD Joshua M. Liao, MD, MSc It is your first day on an inpatient teaching service with a third-year internal medicine resident, two…
Frailty in Hospitalized Patients
Frailty in Hospitalized Patients Leah Marcotte, MD Joshua M. Liao, MD, MSc You are consulted by vascular surgery on the care of an 88-year-old woman admitted to their service for…
Hip Fracture
Hip Fracture Neal Biddick, MD Staci Saunders, MD Zahir Kanjee, MD, MPH A 79-year-old woman with hypertension, diabetes, and chronic heart failure presents after a mechanical fall. She is admitted…
Opiates and Opiate Use Disorder
Opiates and Opiate Use Disorder Rachel Hensel, MD Zahir Kanjee, MD, MPH You are admitting a 57-year-old opiate-naive woman with a history of obesity and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) for…
Acute Kidney Injury
Acute Kidney Injury Patrick Marcus, MD Eric M. LaMotte, MD You are called by the ED to admit a 63-year-old man with a history of hypertension and type 2 diabetes…
Perioperative Medicine
Perioperative Medicine Divya Gollapudi, MD A 70 year-old man with history of coronary artery disease with prior stent placement, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes mellitus is admitted with…
