Rapid Clinical Updates: Striving for Oral Stepdown: Novel Agents and Strategies for Avoiding OPAT

Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) has served a key role in the treatment of severe and difficult to treat infections such osteomyelitis and bacteremia. However, use of prolonged antibiotic therapy can be associated with line related complications, prolonged hospitalization, and logistical challenges for follow up. This session seeks to review the latest data on long acting infusion based antibiotics and oral therapies with high oral bioavailability that can safely serve as alternatives to intravenous treatment.

This session is presented by Jose Mercado, MD and Reinaldo Perez, MD. Our moderator is Joseph Sweigart, MD, FHM, SFHM.

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Expires on Nov 20, 2027

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Member: $0.00

Non-Member: $95.00

Credit Offered

1 CME Credit

1 Participation Credit

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Jose Mercado, MD
Reinaldo Perez, MD
Joseph Sweigart, MD, SFHM
Jagriti Chadha, MD, MPH, FACP, SFHM
Lily Ackermann, ScM, MD, FACS, SFHM
Ebrahim Barkoudah, MD, FACP, MPH, SFHM

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The individuals in control of content for this activity have no relevant relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies to disclose unless listed here. Any relevant relationships were mitigated prior to the start of this activity.

Accreditation Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Credit Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Rapid Clinical Updates: Updates in Acute Stroke Management

This session is presented by Madison Paul, MD and Emiliya Melkumova, MD. Our moderators are Ebrahim Barkoudah, MD, FACP, MPH, SFHM and Lily Ackermann, MD, ScM, FHM. This talk will discuss high-yield evidence-based answers to questions commonly encountered when taking care of acute stroke patients. This session will be helpful for academic and non-academic hospitalists physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, or anyone else who practices adult hospital medicine. Attendees will learn the appropriate acute treatment of minor stroke and TIA, as well as how to manage anticoagulation in patients with a. fib and breakthrough stroke.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00

Rapid Clinical Updates: Updates in Gastrointestinal Bleed

With all the complicated patients you take care of on a daily basis, don't you long for the straightforward GI bleeder? We will discuss GI Bleeds from both the hospitalist perspective with medical management, but also from the GI perspective highlighting what is done in the endoscopy suite.

This session is presented by Marijeta Pekez, MD and Benjamin Verplanke, MD, FACP, FHM. Our moderator is Jagriti Chadha, MD, FHM, SFHM.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00

Rapid Clinical Updates

Rapid Clinical Updates is designed to reach Society of Hospital Medicine members and other hospitalists ’clinicians with the latest information on clinical updates and treatment when and where they need it most, with actionable education that will help clinicians improve case delivery and the outcomes of hospitalized patients during hospital stay and after discharge.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $399.00

Rapid Clinical Updates: Heart Failure Implementation Science and Best Clinical Practices

This session will focus on the current evidence for implementation strategies to promote the adoption of guideline directed medical therapy in heart failure. We will cover the gaps in care, the rationale for implementation science in this condition, recent implementation trial evidence, and a look toward the future for implementation science across cardiometabolic care.

This session is presented by Safia Chatur, MD and Ankeet Bhatt, MD, MBA, ScM. Our moderators are Lily Ackermann, MD, ScM, FHM and Ebrahim Barkoudah, MD, FACP, MPH, SFHM.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00

Rapid Clinical Updates: Navigating the Management of Incidental/Subsegmental Pulmonary Emboli

CT just flagged a tiny subsegmental PE—treat or watch? In this case-based live Q&A with experts, you will define ISSPE, recognize key imaging features, and risk-stratify patients to decide when anticoagulation is warranted and when structured surveillance is safer. We translate major guidelines into a practical protocol and interpret emerging data and trials so you finish ready to apply bedside decisions with confidence.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00

Rapid Clinical Updates: Antibiotic Stewardship in Pneumonia

Why do pneumonia antibiotics so often run long? In this rapid webinar, synthesize current CAP and HAP/VAP guidance, enhance diagnostic accuracy, and optimize empiric choices with risk assessment. Then de-escalate with confidence, shorten courses safely, and understand the literature behind each step. Apply stewardship tools that sharpen decisions and improve patient outcomes.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00

Rapid Clinical Updates: Challenging Inpatient Scenarios in Atrial Fibrillation

As bedside alarms spike, do you have a ten‑minute plan for AF? In this rapid, case‑driven webinar you will recognize triggers, triage safely, and decide when to cardiovert vs rate control, then manage anticoagulation—balancing DOACs, PCI antithrombotics, and cardioversion timing. You’ll design high‑value discharges, reassess risk after sepsis or bleeding, and optimize outcomes for frailty and falls—and, when OAC isn’t feasible, evaluate LAAO—so you leave with faster, defensible choices.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00

Rapid Clinical Updates: Delirium and Inpatient Psychotropics

Bedside seconds matter—can you detect delirium before it spirals? In this rapid update, synthesize current evidence to detect early with brief screens, implement prevention bundles on rounds, prescribe only when safety demands, and manage QTc, interactions, and de-prescribing at discharge. Apply practical workflows that prevent harm and sharpen team decisions on your next shift for safer, more efficient inpatient care.

Multiple Credits

$0.00 - $95.00