
#381 LIVE! Patient Centered Things We Do For No ReasonTM
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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VT Prophylaxis and Low Risk Patients - Is This a Patient Centered Conversation?
Hospital medicine recommendations say VT prophylaxis should be a patient centered conversation. Miss Becky opted out of doing VT because frankly she's over it at this point. She's now just got put on all of her oral medications and so she's tentatively planned to go home the next day if she's tolerating all of the oral meds. So by a show of hands, who would pick? Yes. Every four hours vital signs for anyone who's admitted to the hospital. How many of you are not raising your hands, but this is what you order? I don't blame her, to be honest.
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