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Abstract Number: 876
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 24 year-old man with past medical history significant for tobacco, marijuana, and e-cigarette use presented to the emergency department for hemoptysis, dyspnea, cough with pleuritic chest pain, and subjective fevers. Twenty-four hours prior to presentation, the patient endorsed first-time use of a street-purchased e-cigarette cartridge containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). The patient had acute […]
Abstract Number: 956
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 19 year old female with history of marijuana use presented with subacute, progressive shortness of breath. Productive cough began two weeks prior to presentation. She was diagnosed with atypical pneumonia and received azithromycin from her outpatient provider. After two days without improvement in symptoms, she presented to a nearby hospital with acutely […]
Abstract Number: 973
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 19-year-old woman with a history of polysubstance abuse and recent e-cigarette/vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI) presented to the Emergency Room (ER) at a rural medical center with Acute Respiratory Failure and Altered Mental Status (AMS). Pt was 3 months post-partum. Past medical history included chronic migraine headaches and Grave’s disease. […]
Abstract Number: 991
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 22-year-old Caucasian male who presented to our Texas hospital with dyspnea. His symptoms started two days prior with fever to 103°F, vomiting, and a cough with white sputum. The patient worked as a bartender and endorsed daily tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) vaper use. Upon admission, he exhibited tachycardia (137 bpm), tachypnea (30 bpm), hypoxemia (O2 […]
Abstract Number: 996
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old man without significant medical history presented with two months of purpura over his lower extremities and abdomen, ankle pain, and two days of severe abdominal pain associated with vomiting and melena. His symptoms started following a respiratory infection. On presentation, he was afebrile with normal vital signs. Physical exam was notable […]
Abstract Number: 1045
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Case I:A 45-year-old male with a past medical history of vaping marijuana and nicotine presented with a four-day history of progressive dyspnea associated with cough, fevers, fatigue, weight loss, and diarrhea. He was found to be hypoxic to 72% oxygen saturation with a new 15-liter (L) oxygen requirement and febrile to 38.5 Celsius. […]
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Abstract Number: Oral
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Hospital medicine is the fastest growing subspecialty within internal medicine, growing from 10,000 hospitalists in 2002 to over 50,000 in 2016. Despite this growth, there remain relatively few hospitalists who are clinician investigators. We sought to quantify the number of clinician investigators, their dedicated time for research at major United States academic medical centers, […]