A woman with esophageal cancer, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes , was admitted to the hospital with chills and fever and re-insertion of nasal feed tube that got dislodged due to acute dysphagia. She had a history of colon and breast cancer. Doctors inserted the nasal tube on the same day and asked for a complete blood count (CBC) report. CBC revealed a higher WBC count indicating some infection. Her body temperature was 104 ◦ F.
Doctors administered an initial dose of antibiotics via cannula . However, they administered the antibiotics orally through the nasal tube, as the cannula had stopped working . The patient was stable and discharged three days after the treatment with a five-day antibiotics course. She went into a coma immediately after completing the antibiotics course and was admitted to a different hospital, where she was put on a ventilator, with high systolic BP and WBC…
