Meeting
Abstract Number: 656
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 68 year old man with PMH of cerebral palsy, cognitive impairment, and chronic pain with intrathecal baclofen pump initially presented with sepsis due to baclofen pump pocket infection, and underwent explantation of baclofen pump. Intraoperative cultures grew pseudomonas, so on POD 3 cefepime was initiated. On POD 4, he developed encephalopathy, becoming […]
Abstract Number: 788
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 24-year-old man presented with MRSA osteomyelitis of his right tibia two months after suffering an open fracture during a helicopter crash into a mountain. He was started on intravenous vancomycin. The patient did well for thirteen days however then started to have recurrent fever spikes up to 104.9 °F with concurrent sinus […]