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ABSTRACT: The purpose of this case report is to increase awareness among clinicians that oropharyngeal dysphagia occurs in patients with severe anorexia nervosa, placing them at risk for aspiration and impeding nutritional rehabilitation. We describe a patient with severe anorexia nervosa who manifested symptoms of dysphagia, with resultant aspiration pneumonia, at the time of her admission for medical stabilization.
ABSTRACT: Hypophosphatemia of refeeding is one of the most dangerous complications seen during the treatment of patients with anorexia nervosa. Although easily detectable and treatable, hypophosphatemia is under‐recognized as a complication of refeeding. Specific risk factors for the development of hypophosphatemia are likely to exist among patients with severe anorexia nervosa.
Members of the ACUTE multi-disciplinary team including, hospitalists, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, dietitians, physical and occupational therapists, and social workers, under the direct leadership of Dr. Mehler and an assistant research scientist, have all contributed to publishing articles in peer reviewed journals.
ABSTRACT: Anorexia nervosa is a serious mental illness with a high mortality rate. The body image distortion inherent to this disorder and the impaired judgment and cognition due to malnutrition frequently result in patients refusing treatment. Treatment is most effective if patients are treated early in the course of their illness and undergo a full course of treatment. Involuntary treatment may therefore be both life-saving and critical to recovery.
ABSTRACT: Medical problems that arise due to severe restricting and/or purging may be misdiagnosed or sub-optimally treated, from outpatient clinics to top medical hospitals. A symptom may be presumed to be a psychological manifestation of the eating disorder and inappropriately dismissed for further medical evaluation. Alternatively, a detailed medical workup may be performed, overlooking a classic relationship between starvation and a physical finding, which delays referral to eating disorder care.
Denver Health started its music therapy program in 2012 to help behavioral health patients staying in the hospital.
What's the strangest object a doctor has removed from someone's body? Denver Health Dr. Eric Lavonas and eight other emergency medicine doctors talked to The Cut about the oddest objects they've removed from patients. Read his story about his strangest encounter below.
Christy Polito started using heroin when she was 28 years old and living in Dallas, Texas. She said she got into drugs because her boyfriend was doing them. Polito had not experimented with drugs and alcohol growing up and said once she started using heroin, she became an addict almost immediately. “There was no point of recreational use for me,” Polito said.
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand this, too, was a gift.” -Mary Oliver
Denver Health is proud to be recognized as an Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence. Only 25 health care organizations in the United States received the designation this year.
