Leading Causes of Metabolic Admissions
Using the product of a QI project (Billington, Snyder, Regier), I have a group discussion over Zoom regarding why metabolic patients are admitted. The most common answer is vomiting or fever. We then, use each sub-category and discuss that vomiting/fever leads to metabolic decompensation and the underlying fear are the categories (brain edema, hypoglycemia, rhabod, stroke/clot, cardiac dysfunction).
When the team "gets" the sub-category, I "paste" it into the powerpoint (I make it so it goes in the order I want it to populate by copying/pasting from a second copy of it and only "showing" the one that I'm adding to on the screen).
Each "strip" has a situational awareness phrase (we use IPASS, but you could adapt to your program's hand-off system) and a list of the common rare disorders we have admitted to our hospital.
To end the lecture, we talk about how these presentations should also make you think of these rare disorders.
Since this does NOT include the lab testing we often do, I often recommend that they consider watching the 6 minute pathway video.
Submitted by Debra Regier. I give permission for others to modify and use for educational purposes.
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