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Thoracic trauma and chest X-Ray
Y ou are alerted for a level 3 trauma coming from the mountain, a cyclist has fallen going down hill. You prepare the shock room with everything you may need, dress up, and wait. A 25 y/o cyclist arrives completely immobilized, you immediately start to perform ABCDE as you learned in your recent ATLS course…
10 July 20120Comments
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Chest X-Ray and aortic dissection
A 70 yo man come to the ED for restrosternal chest pain and shortness of breath during minimal activity in the last days. He is an ex smoker, with a history of hypertension. On physical examination the patient is not in distress, with a regular blood pressure and regular oximetry. ECG shows no evidence of…
28 June 20120Comments
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Acute Dyspnoea and Laboratory
I t’s a dark night when a red code arrive at the ED by ambulance. Paramedics tell you: “called for acute dyspnoea, I think it’s a COPD exacerbation, he is wheezing, I gave him bronchodilators and steroids, but he is worsening”. He has a history of COPD and hypertension. He presents sweaty, dyspneic,…
5 November 20110Comments
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Acute dyspnoea and X-Ray
I t's a dark night when a red code arrive at the ED by ambulance. Paramedics tell you: “called for acute dyspnoea, I think it’s a COPD exacerbation, he is wheezing, I gave him bronchodilators and steroids, but he is worsening”. He has a history of COPD and hypertension. He presents sweaty, dyspneic,…
18 October 20110Comments
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Acute dyspnoea and clinical findings
I t's a dark night when a red code arrive at the ED by ambulance. Paramedics tell you: “called for acute dyspnoea, I think it’s a COPD exacerbation, he is wheezing, I gave him bronchodilators and steroids, but he is worsening”. He has a history of COPD and hypertension. He presents sweaty, dyspneic, arterial pressure…
5 October 20110Comments
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D-dimer and Aortic dissection
It’s 3.00 am when a 55 yo man is accompained to the ED by his wife because of sudden onset precordial pain, he has not clinical history, he does not smoke and he has an active life style, you find a normal blood pressure and clinical examination and a normal ECG, but the pain is…
17 May 20110Comments

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