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Abstract Number: 572
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 94-year-old female with a past medical history of cerebrovascular accident (no residual effects) presented with an intertrochanteric fracture of the right proximal femur after a mechanical fall. On arrival, the patient was afebrile, vital signs hemodynamically stable. On exam, the patient was alert and oriented x3 with no focal deficits, extremities warm […]
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: 673
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: An 82 year-old woman with history of stage five chronic kidney disease (CKD) presented with new onset of altered mental status, upper extremity tremors and slurred speech. Four days prior to presentation patient was diagnosed with urinary tract infection due to multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and was started on cefepime. On the day of […]
Abstract Number: 815
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: We present a 65-year-old, woman who had developed pseudomonas bacteremia after a complicated femoral artery thrombosis s/p transcatheter repair of the mitral valve. The patient was discharged home on a 6-week course of IV cefepime for concerns of possible mitral valve endocarditis. Within 2 weeks of discharge, the patient had been brought back […]
Abstract Number: 858
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Case: A 72-year-old immunocompromised male with history of skin squamous cell carcinoma on oral chemotherapy, cardiac transplant on immunosupressants, chronic kidney disease was admitted to hospital with pneumonia presentation. He was started on renal adjusted dose of Cefepime and Azithromycin. Patient had improvement in his pneumonia symptoms and had normal mentation until day […]
Abstract Number: 898
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 69 year old male was brought to the emergency department from a rehabilitation facility with altered mental status. Two months ago, he had been admitted for lumbar osteomyelitis for which he was started on Vancomycin and Cefepime and was discharged to a rehabilitation facility. After six weeks of therapy, he was more […]