Background: Reduced payments from Medicare related to high rates of hospital-acquired pressure injuries has prompted hospitals to invest in new technologies and strategies to improve wound care and prevention. While many hospitals have increased the purchase of skin care products such as prophylactic dressings, little is known about the association between these products and reductions [...]

Background: Reduced payments from Medicare related to high rates of hospital-acquired pressure injuries has prompted hospitals to invest in new technologies and strategies to improve wound care and prevention. While many hospitals have increased the purchase of skin care products such as prophylactic dressings, little is known about the association between these products and reductions [...]

Case Presentation: A 64 year old male presented with a three day history of fever, hand soreness and rash.  On the day of presentation, he had just returned from the Caribbean, however denied any history of ill contacts, recent hiking or contact with large bodies of water.  There were no known allergies, recent changes in [...]

Case Presentation: 84 yo M with a history of CAD with HFrEF presented for a routine BiV AICD upgrade whose course was complicated by VT storm requiring amiodarone and lidocaine before conversion back to his outpatient medication mexiletine. Postoperatively, the patient developed a morbilliform rash, which was attributed to an antibiotic allergy as the patient [...]

Case Presentation: 59-year-old Male who presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with generalized rash and fevers. The patient stated that the rash started as a blister in his groin and then spread to the rest of his body. The patient’s past medical history was significant for seizures controlled with phenytoin, cirrhosis secondary to alcohol abuse, [...]