Annals of EMA mom brings in her 5-year-old daughter to the ED for a persistent cough of over 2-weeks. She states the cough gets so bad at times that the patient has difficulty breathing. The patient is nonimmunized based on religious belief. Diphtheria Pertusis (Whooping Cough) in an Unvaccinated Child Bordetella pertussis is the causative organism. It [...]
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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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