Age: 78.0
Sex: M
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Angiogram pulmonary normal, Anticoagulant therapy, Aspiration, Bilevel positive airway pressure, COVID-19
Clinical narrative: Pfizer COVID vaccine EUA  Pfizer Dose 1 2/13/21 (EN6201) Pfizer Dose 2 3/13/21 (EN6204) COVID Positive 5/24/21  5/24/21: 78-year-old man brought to the emergency department for further evaluation of worsening shortness of breath and cough. He was in his usual state of health until approximately 11 days ago when he started to have upper respiratory symptoms characterized by congestion, rhinorrhea, sneezing episodes. Symptoms gradually worsened until 5 days ago when he started to have for productive cough accompanied by shortness of breath. He denies accompanying fever, chills, nausea or vomiting.   His sister who accompanied him has been checking on him daily and has noted worsening bouts of coughing as well as shortness of breath, unable to keep up with ADLs. Upon checking on him today she noted that his lips were blue, brought in to the emergency department by private passenger car and in trial urge his oxygen saturation was noted to be 64% on room air. He was immediately started on supplemental oxygen via OxyMask, nebulizer therapy. COVID-19 rapid antigen test was subsequently positive, CT pulmonary angiogram was done which is negative for PE but also did not demonstrate any evidence of pneumonia. He is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 since March, denies any known contacts being treated for or with symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 infection. While in the ED continued to deteriorate requiring increasing amounts of oxygen via OxyMask, desaturating to 82-85% on 15 L OxyMask. Has been started on NIPV and will be admitted to the ICU for further treatment and evaluation. Of note, he reports that he and 5+ of his family members were all fully vaccinated and all tested positive to COVID around the same time.  6/14/21: The patient presented to the hospital on May 24 with cough and shortness of breath, COVID-19 test positive, initially he was hypoxic requiring 6 L of oxygen then his oxygen demand increased until he require to be on BiPAP and high-flow nasal cannula, then on May 29th require endotracheal intubation the ICU and started on Remdesivir, Decadron, but he was not candidate for Acterna, on June 3rd the patient had a fall with dislodged endotracheal tube require immediate re-intubation and his CT show simple nondisplaced skull fracture and subgaleal small hematoma without intracranial hemorrhage.  Patient extubated on June 6 to BiPAP then the oxygen requirement taper down. The patient post extubation kept having shortness of breath and cough, sputum culture grow Klebsiella pneumonia and he was on Zosyn which cover it and will complete the antibiotic on June 15th. The patient is hypercoagulable with elevated D-dimer 2 to COVID-19 infection and will continue Lovenox b.i.d. with his aspirin and Plavix for CAD with pantoprazole.  Will continue his chronic steroid. The pulmonologist recommend to keep the patient in isolation due to prolonged virus shedding.  On per oral Vanco for C diff prophylaxis due to history of recurrent C diff infection and he is currently on antibiotic. Echocardiogram showed normal EF without significant valvular disease. Patient had episodes of dysphagia and swallow studies show some aspiration and he placed on pureed diet/dysphagia level 1. Sign-out given to SELECT LTAC team, they will follow on management.