The patient's clinical course was later complicated by septic shock in the setting of Escherichia coli and Lactobacillus species bacteremia, hyperbilirubinemia secondary to acalculous cholecystitis with requirement for percutaneous cholecystostomy, and acute blood loss anemia secondary to gastrointestinal bleed requiring blood transfusion. Owing to prolonged ventilator-dependent respiratory failure, the patient underwent placement of tracheostomy.