Meeting
Abstract Number: 569
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 32 year old male presented with worsening headaches over several weeks. He had multiple previous visits to medical and psychiatric facilities often leaving against medical advice (AMA). On his last hospital visit, a large brain mass was discovered on imaging. However, he left AMA before work-up was complete. He was later brought [...]
Abstract Number: 638
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 60 year old female with past medical history of chronic migraines presents with chief complaint of nausea and vomiting, with associated headache and malaise. She reports recent emergency room visit two weeks prior at an outside hospital for a “cold” with stomach pain. She was told she had a urinary tract infection [...]
Abstract Number: 785
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 72 yo male with history of cerebral artery aneurysm, COPD, and Stage 3 CKD presented to the hospital for elective angiography of a cerebral aneurysm. He developed PEA arrest in the preprocedural setting and ROSC was achieved after 5 minutes of CPR. Patients condition improved initially but prior to planned discharge he developed [...]
Abstract Number: 909
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 73-year-old male with a medical history of hypertension presented with vomiting of 5 days. Vomitus was non-bloody, non-bilious in nature and was associated with headache. The headache was sudden in onset, bifrontal, 8/10 on a numerical rating pain scale.Initial vitals were remarkable for BP of 68/54 mm Hg which improved to 94/55 [...]