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Abstract Number: I38
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 58 year-old undomiciled man with no known medical history presented with three days of anorexia, malaise, abdominal pain, nausea and decreased urine output. His exam was notable for scleral icterus. Initial lab work was remarkable for sodium 133 mEq/L, BUN 132mg/dL, creatinine 8.82 mg/dL, platelet 64 K/uL, total bilirubin 6.4 mg/dL, and […]
Abstract Number: I41
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 33-year-old woman with sickle cell SC disease (HbSC) was admitted to the hospital for respiratory support after testing positive for COVID-19. Four days prior to presentation, the patient developed subjective fever, cough, shortness of breath, substernal non-radiating chest pain, thigh and back pain. Her medical history included prior vaso-occlusive episodes, though no […]
Abstract Number: I43
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 57 year-old woman without significant past medical history presented with fever, malaise, diffuse painful lymphadenopathy, and palpitations. Patient developed palpitations 4 weeks ago after receiving a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. She later developed painful cervical lymphadenopathy and was treated with metoprolol, levofloxacin, and prednisone with minimal improvement. On admission, […]
Abstract Number: J10
SHM Converge 2022
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately affected certain racial and ethnic minority groups, many of whom may not speak english as a primary language. Patients with Limited English proficiency (LEP) have previously been shown to have worse outcomes in the hospital, including higher odds of mortality from sepsis. We investigated the association […]
Abstract Number: J11
SHM Converge 2022
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic required physicians to care for a new disease with uncertain and evolving characteristics while also adhering to physical and social distancing practices, and under conditions of extreme duress – all factors likely to lead to missed or delayed diagnoses among patients admitted ‘under investigation’ for COVID-19. Methods: We carried out a […]
Abstract Number: J19
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Syrian health system capacity has been devastated by a decade of conflict distinguished by frequent attacks on healthcare facilities and workers. The chronic nature of complex emergency created substantial gaps in formal training for what remains of the health system, leaving already impaired infrastructure vulnerable to the arrival of Covid-19 in mid-2020 to areas […]
Abstract Number: J27
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: The patient is a 49-year-old male with a history of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection 3 weeks prior who presented to the emergency department complaining of weakness. It began 1 week ago when he woke up with numbness in his bilateral lower extremities (BLE) accompanied by tingling dysesthesias in the toes. His symptoms rapidly evolved […]
Abstract Number: K17
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Patient safety indicators (PSI) are hospital quality measures designed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to capture potentially-preventable adverse events. PSI-12 is defined as perioperative pulmonary embolism (PE) or deep vein thrombosis (DVT). It is unclear how active COVID-19 infection, which is known to be associated with coagulopathy, has impacted PSI-12 […]
Abstract Number: K32
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: 49-year-old female with past medical history of hypertension & bipolar disorder presented to hospital with complaints of worsening weakness involving her lower extremities for 8 weeks. The weakness began 10 days after receiving the first dose of mRNA-1273 (Moderna Vaccine). Her weakness started in her bilateral feet, gradually ascended up to involve waist […]
Abstract Number: K36
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 76-year-old Hispanic male with a past medical history of well-controlled hypertension, Pre-diabetes, class 3 obesity, unprovoked Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) progressing to pulmonary embolism (PE) diagnosed 6 months ago, treated with apixaban, presented to the ED with 2 weeks history of progressively worsening dyspnea, dry cough and orthopnea. Denies any chest pain, […]