Meeting
Abstract Number: 893
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 59 year-old woman with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and end-stage kidney disease on hemodialysis presented with altered mental status and a suprapatellar abscess. Following irrigation and debridement, her course was complicated by septic shock. She was found with high-grade methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, and her blood cultures ultimately sterilized with IV cefazolin therapy. […]