Background: Oxygen saturation (SpO2) is often overestimated in darker skinned individuals (1–3), but the ideal method to quantify this phenomenon and measure its impact on clinical outcomes is unclear. Studying the distributions of SpO2 may not be the appropriate method because these distributions are influenced by clinicians’ real time efforts to maintain SpO2 in a […]

Case Presentation: A 69-year-old male with past medical history of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and substance abuse presented to the ED with suicidal and homicidal ideations, and hallucinations. He tested positive for COVID-19 at an outside hospital a week prior to presentation. He endorsed subjective fevers and productive cough with non-bloody sputum and denied dyspnea, chest […]

Case Presentation: A 26-year-old otherwise healthy female was prescribed trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) for a recurring, spontaneously draining vaginal mass below her urethra with inguinal adenopathy. 5 days after starting TMP-SMX, she developed a full-body rash, fever, myalgia, nausea, and a depressed WBC of 2.4 K/mcL. Possible drug fever was suspected and TMP-SMX was discontinued and covered […]