What were the most important issues in hospital medicine in 2010?

St. Louis City Hospital

It's popular right about now to look at the year in review. For the field of hospital medicine I have traditionally posted a top ten list. Although I'm dropping the top ten format this year (it tends to be artificial) I'm preparing some posts for the next few days on what I think the most important developments were in 2010. Among those are updates in safety, biomarkers, mechanical ventilation, cardiac function in critical illness and resuscitation. Stay tuned and look for the hospital sketch above.