Meeting
Abstract Number: 523
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 24-year-old black male with a history of generalized epilepsy first diagnosed one year ago presented to the Emergency Department (ED) after one episode of a witnessed generalized tonic-clonic seizure. Upon arrival at the ED, he was at his baseline mental state. However, just moments later, he had another refractory generalized tonic-clonic seizure […]
Abstract Number: 895
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 60 year-old female with no significant past medical history was brought in as a level 2 trauma after being involved in a motor vehicle accident. The non-contrast head CT demonstrated bilateral frontal brain lesions, prompting a brain MRI which revealed a non-enhancing T2/FLAIR hyperintense lesion in the anterior frontal lobes and crossing […]
Abstract Number: 1013
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 44-year-old female with history of a seizure disorder presented with status epilepticus. She had four witnessed seizures with generalized convulsions at home and two more en route to the hospital with EMS, for which she received two doses of 5mg of midazolam. Upon arriving to the ED, she had two to three […]