
#165 Things We Do For No Reason™ Part 2
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Safety of Medformin in the Hospital Setting
The 2018 ADA guidelines from Diabetes Care mentioned that once the patient's kind of stable and they're one to two days out from discharge, you should consider restarting their oral medications. And this is based on outpatient data that looks at reduced hospitalization for heart failure patients and better volume control. If a patient doesn't already have acute kidney injury, I don't see any reason to hold Medformin in the hospital, right? So again, that's not the recommendation of the American Association of Clinical Anachronologists or the American Diabetes Association.
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