
#393 Live from SHM: Clinical Updates in Hospital Medicine
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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The Unintended Downsides of Routine Gabapentin Prescriptions
A lot of people who get these surgeries and are placed on gabapentin are actually still on them three months after their surgery, which is ludicrous because that is not how it's been studied. This is a complete zag from what you guys just talked about. They picked pneumonia, which I found to be kind of random. But you can imagine it is sort of like off and left field. The vast majority of these patients were elective surgery,. So they're not going to be like coming to the ED with potential infection.
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