Meeting
Abstract Number: 545
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old gentleman with no known medical issues was brought in to the emergency department after experiencing sudden onset unresponsiveness and respiratory arrest. He had been intubated by paramedics on arrival. Upon transfer to the emergency department, he was found to have unstable atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response necessitating cardioversion. Initial labs […]
Abstract Number: 556
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: Our patient was a 71 year-old male admitted for acute respiratory failure secondary to aspiration pneumonia in the setting of advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) requiring endotracheal intubation. After multiple failed attempts to extubate in light of supraglottic edema, the patient underwent a tracheostomy in the operating room (OR) with propofol, lidocaine, fentanyl and […]