Background: Antipsychotics are frequently used in the hospital setting for managing both acute and chronic neuropsychiatric disorders. However, antipsychotics have been associated with higher rates of adverse events, including mortality, due to their association with QT prolongation, which can lead to fatal cardiac arrhythmias such as torsade de pointes, earning a black box warning for use in dementia related psychosis. Yet, [...]

Background: A priority of bedside electrocardiographic (ECG) monitoring is identification of ventricular tachycardia (VT), a lethal arrhythmia associated with morbidity and mortality. However, up to 87% of VT alarms could be false. In addition, little is known about the rate of mortality associated with VT. We assessed the rate of 30-day in-hospital mortality associated with [...]

Case Presentation: Our patient is a 90-year-old Caucasian female with atrial fibrillation, peripheral vascular disease, and hypertension was admitted to the hospital due to shortness of breath for one day and myalgias for the past three days. Her chest x-ray done on presentation was consistent with multifocal pneumonia, and on further testing, she was subsequently [...]

Case Presentation: A 69-year-old female presented to the Emergency Department with progressive weakness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and confusion for several weeks following an eye surgery the month prior, with symptoms acutely worsening over the last week. On the day of admission, she was found disoriented and clinging to a doorway at home, unable [...]

Case Presentation: A 53-year-old male with a past medical history of alcohol abuse presented to the emergency department after a presyncopal episode following new onset of hematemesis and black, tarry stools. He additionally had sharp, bilateral chest pain that was present at rest with no radiation or worsening with exertion. Upon presentation he was hypotensive, [...]

Case Presentation: An 81-year-old patient with hypertension presented to the emergency department with one week of dry cough and fatigue. He reported pleuritic chest discomfort, but denied dyspnea, fevers, chills, palpitations, or lightheadedness. His vital signs were normal. Initial workup was notable for an unremarkable chest x-ray, positive COVID-19 PCR, B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) 426 [...]