Age: 90.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: COVID19
Symptoms: Dyspnoea, Food refusal, Incoherent, Intensive care, Pneumonia aspiration
Clinical narrative: trouble breathing/couldn't breathe without oxygen; possible COVID-19 pneumonia; possible COVID-19 pneumonia; wouldn't eat; incoherent; thrashing around with her legs, would not settle down/legs were thrashing around; persistent UTI; aspiration pneumonia; This is a spontaneous report from a Pfizer-sponsored program from a contactable consumer reporting for the mother. A 90-year-old female patient received the 1st dose of bnt162b2 (BNT162B2, Manufacturer Pfizer BioNTech) (lot# EL3249), intramuscular in right upper arm, on 14Jan2021 between 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM , at single dose, for COVID-19 immunisation. She was monitored for an hour after vaccine. Medical history included penicillin allergy, ongoing vascular dementia, cardiac pacemaker insertion, congestive heart failure. There were no concomitant medications. The patient previously took ciprofloxacin and experienced drug hypersensitivity and rash (she took the prescribed dose and immediately broke out after, all over her body), codeine and experienced drug hypersensitivity, neomycin and experienced drug hypersensitivity, neosporine and experienced drug hypersensitivity. The patient experienced aspiration pneumonia in Jan2021 with outcome of unknown, wouldn't eat on 17Jan2021 with outcome of unknown, trouble breathing/couldn't breathe without oxygen on 21Jan2021 with outcome of unknown, incoherent on 15Jan2021 with outcome of unknown, thrashing around with her legs, would not settle down/legs were thrashing around on 15Jan2021 with outcome of unknown, persistent urinary tract infection (UTI) on an unspecified date in Jan2021 with outcome of unknown. The events were considered serious as caused patient's hospitalization. Clinical course: on 15Jan2021 night the patient started thrashing around with her legs, would not settle down, she was incoherent. On 17Jan2021, when she woke up, she was completely incoherent and would not eat. On 17Jan2021 she was taken to the emergency room (ER), and was diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia and persistent urinary tract infection (UTI). The patient was admitted on 17Jan2021 and she was treated. On 18Jan2021 patient got better, they put her on a bunch of antibiotics. On 19Jan2021 patient walked the halls, she wasn't incoherent. She was going to get PT/OT, speech therapy. The patient was discharged on 20Jan2021 and was taken to rehab type place (near the hospital), she was fine. However over the night she got worse. She became incoherent again and couldn't breathe without oxygen (21Jan2021). On 21Jan2021 the patient was sent back to ER due to trouble breathing. The reporter stated that something happened at nursing home and the patient went bonkers. She was admitted again (still ongoing) and put to intensive care unit (ICU) for treatment. The patient underwent lab tests and procedures which included cardiac function test: nothing wrong with heart in Jan2021, chest x-ray: concerning for possible Covid pneumonia on 17Jan2021 (transvenous pacemaker is present some peripheral, increased entity present Concerning for possible COVID pneumonia), CT scan: no evidence of pleural effusion or pneumothorax in Jan2021, COVID-19 virus test: negative in Jan2021 (2 times during the ER trips). Therapeutic measures were taken as a result of the events and included treatment with unspecified antibiotics.