Meeting
Abstract Number: 849
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 57-year-old African-American male, with past medical history of nonischemic cardiomyopathy, moderate aortic insufficiency, HTN, and cocaine abuse presented to the emergency room with complaints of shortness of breath (SOB), and chest pain (CP). He admitted to using cocaine on his birthday party, which was 5 days ago. After using cocaine he started […]
Abstract Number: 850
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 48-year-old woman with history of anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and polysubstance abuse was brought to the hospital for unusual behavior. She was hospitalized one month prior for behavior change and diagnosed with substance induced psychosis. She returned to the hospital after two weeks of recurrent bizarre behavior at home including wandering disrobed, […]
Abstract Number: C34
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 55-year-old female presented to the ED with 1 week of worsening “throbbing” headache. She reported having a continuous headache after riding a roller coaster one week ago. She denied fever, neck stiffness, weakness. She denied head trauma or recent illicit drug use Past medical history was significant fora right-sided non-traumatic subdural hematoma […]
Abstract Number: 1028
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 36-year old male with a history of paraplegia secondary to a motor vehicle accident and long-standing polysubstance abuse presents to the ED for worsening facial wounds that first appeared two years ago. The patient states the most recent lesion on the upper back appeared two months ago and was preceded by cocaine […]