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Abstract Number: 851
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 62-year-old woman with a history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hypothyroidism presented with a severe headache which was posterior, waxing and waning in nature, and associated with nausea and vomiting. The headache started suddenly five days earlier and had awoken her from sleep. At that time she had presented to the emergency […]
Abstract Number: 869
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old female with a past medical history of microcytic anemia and recently-diagnosed AOSD presented with 2 weeks of progressive dyspnea. On her preceding hospital admission, her AOSD was diagnosed and clinical suspicion for MAS was initially mounted. At that time, she demonstrated polyarthralgia, pruritic rash, high-grade fevers, hepatosplenomegaly, diffuse lymphadenopathy, neutrophilic leukocytosis, […]
Abstract Number: 897
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old previously healthy woman was presented to our hospital with acute low back pain that was not triggered by any trauma. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a lumbar compression fracture, and she was admitted to the orthopedic department. Two days later, she developed orthopnea and hypotension, and therefore the orthopedician consulted with […]
Abstract Number: 910
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 23-year-old female with a one-year history of intermittent back pain who presented to an outside hospital with acutely worsened low back pain, and new onset left leg weakness, constipation, and urinary retention. She did not have health insurance and was unable to seek proper medical care. She had been told her pain […]
Abstract Number: H18
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Residents receive little feedback on their clinical reasoning (CR) documentation due to time constraints of supervisors and lack of a shared mental model. We developed an innovative workplace-based assessment tool using machine learning (ML) to provide feedback on CR documentation. Here, we describe the impact of feedback using this assessment tool. Methods: In earlier […]
Abstract Number: 1155
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 24 year-old woman presented to the emergency room for a sore throat and diffuse body aches, with weakness in her shoulders and hips to the point that she required assistance with ambulation over the past week. She was afebrile and normotensive at admission but initial labs were significant for a WBC of […]
Abstract Number: 1201
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 3-year-old female presented with 1-day of fatigue, pallor, dyspnea and dry cough. Vital signs showed HR 152, RR 28, temp 98.8 F, BP 101/67, and oxygen saturation of 75% on room air. On exam, she was well appearing, with clear lungs and no respiratory distress despite the desaturations. Initial testing showed a […]