Meeting
Abstract Number: 572
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 94-year-old female with a past medical history of cerebrovascular accident (no residual effects) presented with an intertrochanteric fracture of the right proximal femur after a mechanical fall. On arrival, the patient was afebrile, vital signs hemodynamically stable. On exam, the patient was alert and oriented x3 with no focal deficits, extremities warm […]
Abstract Number: 815
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: We present a 65-year-old, woman who had developed pseudomonas bacteremia after a complicated femoral artery thrombosis s/p transcatheter repair of the mitral valve. The patient was discharged home on a 6-week course of IV cefepime for concerns of possible mitral valve endocarditis. Within 2 weeks of discharge, the patient had been brought back […]