Meeting
Abstract Number: 962
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 65-year old man with a history of coronary artery disease, heart failure, and Crohn’s disease, who is a resident of northern Wisconsin presented with fevers, headache, and neck stiffness. Due to concern for meningitis, he was started empirically on Ceftriaxone, Vancomycin, Ampicillin, and Acyclovir. One day after initiation of therapy, he developed […]
Abstract Number: 962
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old female with history of hypothyroidism, surgically treated lumbar radiculopathy and neck sarcoma status post resection and radiochemotherapy was brought to the emergency department (ED) by the police. She was unwilling to speak and history was initially obtained from her son. He states that she has been acting oddly for a year, […]