Case Presentation: A 68 year old man with PMH of cerebral palsy, cognitive impairment, and chronic pain with intrathecal baclofen pump initially presented with sepsis due to baclofen pump pocket infection, and underwent explantation of baclofen pump. Intraoperative cultures grew pseudomonas, so on POD 3 cefepime was initiated. On POD 4, he developed encephalopathy, becoming […]

Case Presentation: A 75-year-old white male presented to the Emergency Department with a 2-day history of gait disturbance, flailing bilateral upper extremity movements, and confusion. His wife stated that his symptoms had been occurring for the past 1 month and acutely worsened over the past several days. For the past year, he had been evaluated […]

Case Presentation: A 64-year-old male with a history of spinal cord injury complicated by quadriplegia, neurogenic bladder and bowel presented with an obstructed suprapubic foley catheter, severe localized pain over the suprapubic area, and a blood pressure of 84/56 on arrival. The patient was administered intravenous fluids and started on 4.5g of piperacillin/tazobactam every 8 […]