Case #14 01/29/08 Don’t take her breath away.
A 21 y/o female with a history of asthma presents in acute bronchospasm. She has a history of previous asthma attacks requiring admission, but no ICU admissions and no Intubations. Her last ED visit...
View ArticleCase #24 Collapse at Discharge
A 24 y/o asthmatic patient presents for acute bronchosmasm. She has been getting short of breath for the past two days, and has been using her inhaler 4-6 times a day. She is not on inhaled steroids....
View ArticleCase #34 “Time is Money!” by Charlene Babcock Irvin, MD
A 77 y/o female presents with chief complaint of weakness. She has had no appetite for 2 days, and also notes some shortness of breath. She also has a cough with yellow/brown sputum, and some nausea...
View ArticleCase #83 “Wrong Chief Complaint” by Charlene Babock Irvin, MD, FACEP
EMS arrives with a 55 y/o female with a chief complaint of vomiting blood. According to them she just vomited about 1 cup in the ambulance. As you approach the patient, you note she is having...
View ArticleCase #106 “FAST Plus” by Charlene Babock Irvin, MD, FACEP
A 17 y/o male presents to a small Emergency Department with a persistent cough. He also notes shortness of breath. His mom made him come because she has noted the cough started yesterday, which...
View ArticleCase #107 “The Nagging Cough” by Charlene Babock Irvin, MD, FACEP
A 68 y/o spry grandmother presents with a ‘nagging cough’. She states she has had the cough for 3 weeks. She saw her primary doctor who prescribed antibiotics, but it made no difference. She has...
View ArticleCase #126 “She Looks Much Better!″ by Charlene Babcock Irvin, MD, FACEP
During sign out rounds, the resident reports on the next patient as you pass her room. “75 y/o COPD patient, admitted, waiting for a bed, CXR negative for infiltrate. When her husband brought her in,...
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