Meeting
Abstract Number: 594
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: We describe an interesting case of a 59-year-old female patient who arrived unresponsive to ED, with symptoms concerning for acute coronary syndrome(ACS). There was no informant present along with the patient, so very limited information was available about patient’s past medical history or risk factors. EMS personnel who accompanied the patient reported that […]
Abstract Number: 606
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: An 86 year old man with hypertension, COPD, and a 100 pack year smoking history presented to the emergency department with 1 week of dyspnea and neck pain. He had a blood pressure of 104/74, heart rate 85, respiratory rate 27, and SpO2 95% on 3 liters nasal cannula. Labs were significant for […]
Abstract Number: 765
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: We present a 20 year old gentleman in acute hypoxic and hypercapnic respiratory failure and cariogenic shock secondary to hemodynamically unstable hemoptysis requiring mechanical ventilation and vasopressor support with norepinephrine and vasopressin. He had history of pulmonary atresia with intact interventricular septum at birth post right ventricular outflow repair and 1.5 ventricular repair […]
Abstract Number: 796
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Patient is a 29 year old female with no significant past medical history who presented to our hospital with an unintentional 60 pound weight loss over 3 months and 4 days of palpitations, shortness of breath, leg swelling, and orthopnea. Physical exam revealed 4+ pitting edema, tachycardia (130 beats/minutes) and jugular venous distention […]
Abstract Number: 845
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: This is a case of a 58-year-old male with history of urethral stricture s/p dilation who presented with progressive dyspnea, nonproductive cough and fever. Chest x-ray revealed bilateral diffuse opacification concerning for pneumonia, CTA showed no PE. The patient was initiated on levofloxacin for Pneumonia, heparin infusion for NSTEMI and was admitted to […]