An 8 month old is rushed into the pediatric resuscitation room. The nurse states he is unresponsive. As you enter the room, you wrack your brain to quickly develop a differntial diagnosis....
It is the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. A 9 yo male presents with one week of flu-like symptoms. You wonder if this is just a viral syndrome or something more ominous as you head for the room....(it is something more ominous)
47 yo M with history of HTN, HLD, morbid obesity presenting via EMS with altered mental status, found to be hypoglycemic with blood glucose in the 30’s prior to arrival.
Elderly male presents to your ED with epistaxis for hours ...
A 61 yo male presents to the ED for the second time with complaints of back pain. While the overwhelming majority of cases of back pain are benign, there are a few "can't miss" causes which will result in paralysis if not diagnosed early. You ponder these diagnoses as you make your way to the patient's room...
Blunt chest injury can rarely result in a direct contusion to the myocardium. This "bruise of the heart" can precipiate lethal cardiac arrhythmia, often in a delayed fashion. As you evaluate a trauma patient with complaints of chest pain after blunt injury, you wonder what the correct workup and management of this potentially fatal condition should consist of....
16 y/o female p/w L sided facial droop and L eyelid weakness
54 y.o. Male hx MI s/p PCI (years ago) presenting w/ chest pain
45 y/o F, no PMHx, sent in from UC for R sided pleural effusion
A 50 yo male is brought in via EMS vomiting red fluid. 1 hour prior, he had chugged about half a gatorade bottle that he had used to store windshield washer fluid. "What's in windshield washer fluid?" you wonder as you enter the patient's room. "Is it bad????" Read on to find out why, yes, this is very bad indeed.
