Meeting
Abstract Number: 343
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Opioids are widely prescribed for cancer and non-cancer related pain in hospitalized patients. The opioid usage increased roughly three times in the past two decades. Pain is a feeling of distress evoked by sensory stimuli with/without organ damage and an associated emotional experience. Considering the subjective nature of pain, the need for medication is […]
Abstract Number: 727
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 62-year-old man presented with six months of progressive lower back pain. He noticed weight loss, sweats, and subjective fevers, but denied neurological symptoms or a other complaints. Patient lives in Texas, but travels to Mexico during winter. He denied tobacco abuse, intravenous drug use, incarceration or animal exposure. He reported eating unpasteurized […]