Background: Complex non-pharmacologic interventions containing multiple, or bundled, components can successfully prevent and treat hospital-acquired delirium in older adults. However consistent implementation, and the measurement of compliance, of these bundled interventions can be challenging to sustain in hospital settings especially in presence of COVID-19. Developing workflows with a smaller sub-set of components that are feasible […]

Background: Post hospital discharge review during the transition from hospital to skilled nursing facility (SNF) is critical to avoid medication errors, improve patient outcomes and reduce hospital readmissions (1-3). Despite increased integration of electronic health records (EHR) across health entities, communication gaps and discharge-related medication errors still persist (2,4). These challenges can be more predominant […]

Case Presentation: A previously healthy 19 year-old college student presented after coughing up a live worm (Figure 1). The night prior, he had developed a cough and right-sided chest “cramping.” Although he reported respiratory and constitutional symptoms from his concurrent COVID-19 infection, he stated that the cough was atypical and was associated with a sensation […]

Case Presentation: Patient is a 45-year-old female with a history of esophageal reflux and dysmotility, asthma, depression/anxiety, and recent SARS-2-CoV infection (COVID-19) who presented to our hospital 9 months after initial and 3 months after recurrent COVID-19 with headache, dyspnea, and home blood pressures (BP) > 180/100. Patient reported intermittent symptoms for the last 3 […]

Case Presentation: A 60-year old woman with a history of chronic lower extremity wounds presented to the emergency department after sustaining a right lower extremity injury from an unknown mechanism one week ago. In experiencing housing and financial instability, she was sleeping on park benches and wrapping the wound in newspapers and fabrics. She noticed […]

Case Presentation: We present a 41-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension and ESRD status post deceased donor kidney transplant in 2018, on treatment with tacrolimus and Mycophenolate Mofetil.She presented to an urgent care 4 days prior, where she tested positive for symptomatic COVID-19 infection and was prescribed a 5-day course of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir. […]

Case Presentation: Hemophagocytic lymphohystiocytosis (HLH) is a rare cause of pancytopenia. Patients with sickle cell disease can present with pancytopenia and recognition of (HLH) in patients with sickle cell disease may be a lifesaving diagnosis.Case presentation:A 39-year-old female with past medical history of sickle cell anemia and moyamoya disease was admitted with sickle cell vaso-occlusive […]

Case Presentation: A 32-year-old healthy female presented with right lower quadrant abdominal pain, hematuria, and easy bruising for four days. She denied prior episodes and family history. On physical exam, she had stable vital signs, gingival bleeding, and hemorrhagic papules on her hands [image 1] and lip. Her labs were significant for: hemoglobin 11 g/dL, […]

Case Presentation: A 47-year-old male with history of hypertension presented to urgent care with one day of vomiting and bloody diarrhea. Onset of symptoms occurred 30 minutes after consuming raw juice he made at home from a lauki bottle gourd. At urgent care he was pale, ill-appearing, and hypotensive with a blood pressure of 80/36 […]

Case Presentation: A 31-year-old man with past medical history of secondary syphilis and HIV/AIDS (CD4 47) intermittently on ART presented with worsening rectal pain and recurrent rectal abscesses. He endorsed rectal pruritis, nausea, weight loss, and lower extremity pain. He denied fevers, night sweats, abdominal pain, or diarrhea. Last year, he had a prior rectal […]