Annals of EMCase 2.1 A 23-year-old man presents to your ED after being in a bar fight. The patient states he received multiple punches to his head and face. You note the following finding on exam. 1. What is the diagnosis? 2. What is the treatment in the ED? 3. What is a complication of this condition? [...]
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A 35-year-old woman presents to the resuscitation room with shortness of breath that began earlier in the afternoon. The patient has a history of asthma. On exam, she is in obvious respiratory distress with retractions, accessory muscle use, and faint wheezing on auscultation of her thorax. She rapidly decompensates and has to be endotrachealy intubated. [...]
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No Love in the Time of Cholera I was raised on drinking tap water. To this day, I still don’t understand why my California relatives are willing to spend money to drink bottled water. Evidently, they are not alone…..grocery stores and filled with complete aisles of multiple brands of bottled water, and now flavored water. [...]
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