Meeting
Abstract Number: 701
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 20-year-old otherwise healthy male presented with a three day history of fever, sore throat, and myalgias. He was given supportive care and discharged home after testing negative for strep. He returned three days later with pleuritic chest pain, neck and ear pain, and had developed trismus. On arrival, his heart rate was […]
Abstract Number: 918
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 45-year-old male with no known past medical history presented with a chief complaint of fever, right sided ear pain and dysphagia for 2 weeks. On presentation he was tachycardic (145/min), hypotensive (SBP in the 70s), and tachypneic (36/min). He was volume resuscitated and was empirically started on broad-spectrum antibiotics with imipenem and […]