Meeting
Abstract Number: 447
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 67-year-old male was hospitalized for right lower extremity skin abscess with cellulitis complicated by methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus Aureusbacteremia. The patient received piperacillin/tazobactam (pip/taz) and vancomycin over the first 5 days of hospitalization which was de-escalated to cefazolin at discharge. Thirty-six hours after discharge, the patient was readmitted with expanding area of erythema, […]