Meeting
Abstract Number: 547
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old male healthcare worker with a past history of splenectomy secondary to EBV complications, mild persistent asthma, and type 2 diabetes mellitus presented to the emergency department with acute hypoxic respiratory failure secondary to COVID-19 pneumonia. He quickly progressed to septic shock with worsening hypotension, tachycardia, lactic acidosis, increasing oxygen demands, and […]
Abstract Number: 920
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 39-year-old Zimbabwean male with a past medical history of hepatic schistosomiasis complicated by cirrhosis and pancytopenia presented to the ED with 7 days of abdominal pain and generalized weakness. The patient exhibited similar symptoms 8 months prior and had taken furosemide and spironolactone ever since, with no other home medications. Physical exam […]
Abstract Number: E25
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 56 year old female patient with past medical history of hypertension and diabetes mellitus type 2 presents to the emergency department with a 1 day history of fever and confusion. Vitals showed a temperature of 101.4 F, heart rate at 112 beats per minute, blood pressure at 136/73. Initial lab work was […]