Meeting
Abstract Number: 516
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 60-year-old male with chronic kidney disease 3a, hypertension (HTN) and type 2 diabetes was found unresponsive at work. The patient’s home medications were carvedilol, nifedipine, spironolactone and valsartan for his resistant HTN. Initial evaluation revealed undifferentiated shock with an inappropriately low heart rate of 40 beats per minute. Labs showed potassium of […]
Abstract Number: 712
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 78-year-old man with atrial fibrillation on amiodarone and rivaroxaban, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) on metoprolol and furosemide, hypertension on amlodipine and lisinopril, type 2 diabetes on metformin, and chronic kidney disease, presented with several weeks of progressive lethargy and confusion in the setting of chronic functional and cognitive decline.He […]
Abstract Number: 1162
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Our patient is an 88-year-old female who presented with abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Her medical comorbidities included hypertension, diabetes, CAD, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, hypothyroidism and a history of cerebrovascular accident without any residual deficits. Her prescription regimen included amlodipine, furosemide, isosorbide mononitrate, levothyroxine, metformin, omeprazole and […]