Meeting
Abstract Number: 497
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 7-month-old former term female with congenital hypothyroidism was admitted for the third time with a diagnosis of bronchiolitis. Her first admission at 7 weeks of age involved an ICU stay requiring intubation and chest tube placement after a chest X-ray showed a right tension pneumothorax. She suffered no other major complications and […]
Abstract Number: 707
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: 75-year-old female with past medical history of obesity (BMI 31.7 kg/m2), paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, hypertension, hypothyroidism, was admitted to the hospital for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Patient tolerated the procedure without complications, however, post operatively, she was difficult to extubate due to hypercapnia of pCO2 of 100 mmHg in arterial blood gas. She was […]