Meeting
Abstract Number: 7
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Skin, soft tissue, and joint infections are common in pediatric patients and can require invasive procedures to drain purulent fluid. Atypical pathogens (fungal and acid-fast bacilli [AFB]) are important but rare causes of these infections with reported case rates as low as 0.6-1.6 cases/100,000 a year. Despite the rarity of these infections, costly atypical […]
Abstract Number: 141
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Despite detailed Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) skin and soft tissue infection guidelines, patients with cellulitis at our institution consistently receive antibiotics with high local resistance or that are inappropriate based on IDSA guidelines. Our baseline data showed that 55 percent of patients receive antibiotics per IDSA guidelines and only 33 percent of […]
Abstract Number: 521
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A previously healthy and ambulatory 34-year-old diabetic man presented with left-sided scrotal and groin cellulitis and was admitted to the hospital for intravenous antibiotic therapy. He was placed on appropriate pharmacoprophylaxis for venous thromboembolic disease and was observed ambulating on the unit. Despite one week of appropriate antibiotic therapy, he continued to have […]
Abstract Number: 967
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 69-year old male with past medical history significant for granulomatosis with polyangiitis and lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) presented with worsening pain, swelling and erythema of his right lower extremity. He reported exposure to stagnant rainwater in his yard a day prior to admission. Hours after the exposure he developed fever […]