Meeting
Abstract Number: 1197
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 17-year-old female with no past medical history was admitted to a tertiary care children’s hospital with acute onset of abdominal pain, nausea, emesis, oral ulcers, and vaginal rash. She was sexually active with the last unprotected encounter nine days prior to presentation. She endorsed dysuria but denied vaginal discharge. The patient was […]
Abstract Number: 1217
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 36 year old African-American gentleman with a history of asthma presented to the Emergency Department with dizziness, numbness of both lower extremities, gait imbalance, bowel and bladder incontinence which had been worsening since the last 2 months. MRI thoracic spine revealed Focus of abnormal T2 signal within the upper thoracic spinal cord […]
Oral Presentations
Abstract Number: Oral
SHM Converge 2021
Background: Literature on the prognostic value of laboratory tests on patients hospitalized with COVID-19 is sparse.1-4 Based on available evidence our institution developed a protocol for care of patients admitted with COVID-19. In addition to routine labs (complete blood count, complete metabolic panel, venous lactate, etc.), the protocol recommends a set of COVID-specific daily lab […]