Meeting
Abstract Number: 721
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 60-year-old female with history of a hip replacement complicated with MRSA s/p multiple revisions and sick sinus syndrome with pacer placed in 2004, presented to the ED with an “itchy rash most tender at the pacemaker site” where a cardiovascular implantable electronic device (CIED) within a TYRx envelope was placed two days […]
Abstract Number: 1092
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 90-year female with a recent onset of vancomycin induced hypersensitivity reaction presents to the ED with sepsis and generalized disseminated rash. She recently underwent a surgery that was complicated with pseudomonas infection and was treated with vancomycin and Zosyn. However, she developed a pruritic, erythematous macular rash on her abdomen and vancomycin […]