Background: Delirium is a neuropsychiatric syndrome that can occur in hospitalized patients. The negative impact that delirium has on the patient and the health system are well described and include increased mortality, risk of falls, length of stay and overall healthcare utilization. Delirium can have a heterogenous presentation including hyperactivity with agitation, restlessness and psychosis [...]

Background: Despite advances in pharmacologic care for side effects of Hematopoietic stem cell transplant, patients often suffer from long hospitalizations, multiple side effects including fatigue, insomnia, nausea, anxiety, and poor sleep. Non-pharmacologic treatments for side effects of therapy are attractive adjuncts due to a low side effect profile. Purpose: To develop, implement and evaluate a [...]

Case Presentation: A 49 year-old woman with type 2 diabetes presented with emesis and inability to tolerate oral intake. Her symptoms had developed three days earlier, following an elective abdominoplasty and incarcerated hernia repair. Her anti-hyperglycemic regimen included sitagliptin, glimepiride, and dapagliflozin. She had stopped those medications on the day of surgery and restarted them [...]

Case Presentation: A 50-year-old Latin-American woman with a history of hyperthyroidism presented to the ED with migrating polyarthralgias and fever for several days. 3 months prior, patient began experiencing stiffness, joint pains, fatigue, and palpitations. She was ultimately diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and started on Methimazole 1 month prior to current presentation. Patient presented to the [...]

Case Presentation: A 68-year-old Caucasian male with a history of stage IV follicular lymphoma treated with rituximab and bendamustine presented with generalized malaise, weakness, and acute encephalopathy of two weeks.He was hypotensive and his exam showed dry mucous membranes and poor skin turgor. Laboratory examination was remarkable for: creatinine 7.6 mg/dL, AST and ALT 691 [...]

Case Presentation: A sixty-eight year-old woman presented with two days of confusion and lethargy following two weeks of worsening abdominal pain, nausea and emesis. Medical history was significant for chronic pain, depression, hypertension, and a remote history of alcohol withdrawal seizures. There was no reported dyspnea, cough, or chest pain. She was a one pack [...]

Case Presentation: A 42-year-old African American woman with a history of hypertension, morbid obesity, and obstructive sleep apnea presented to the emergency department with a 12-hour history of left-sided abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. At presentation her medications included hydrochlorothiazide, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and lisinopril. Her first dose of lisinopril 5mg was 12 hours before the [...]

Case Presentation: A 64 year old man with a history of membranous nephropathy on tacrolimus and recent cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) repair, with stent placement seven months prior, presented to the emergency room with one day of progressive lethargy, frontal headache, photophobia, and confusion with subjective fevers and nausea.His vitals on presentation were significant for [...]

Case Presentation: 44 year-old Caucasian woman presented with shortness of breath and weakness. She had a history of stage IIIC malignant melanoma (BRAF Wild Type) of right face. She underwent excision of the lesion a year prior to presentation and immunotherapy with ICI (intravenous Nivolumab 240mg every 2 weeks) was initiated. After 10 cycles of [...]

Case Presentation: A 61-year-old man with stage 5 chronic kidney disease was admitted to the hospital with four days of new, uncontrollable muscle twitching. One week prior, he had undergone incision and drainage of a gluteal abscess and was prescribed levofloxacin. Two days later, he began to experience twitching of his face and jerking of [...]