Clinical Cases
Interesting Cases from Day-to-Day Practice
Case 45: Distal Both Bone Fracture
Teini Elisara
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An 82 year old female with a past medical history of anemia of chronic disease, breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, rectal adenocarcinoma, scleroderm...
Case 44: Interscalene Nerve Block for Shoulder Dislocation
Josh Gieschen
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32yo male with no PMH who presents following a fall down the stairs with no head strike or loss of consciousness. He endorses left shoulder pain and inability to range his le...
Case 43: Shortness of Breath
Molly Chou
An 83-year-old male presented to our emergency department with shortness of breath. He woke up that morning with symptoms and called EMS. On arrival, the patient was alert and oriented w...
Case 42: Nephrolithiasis
Alex Liang, Rachna Subramony
A 48 year old male with past medical history of Crohn’s Disease, cryptogenic cirrhosis, pancytopenia, portal vein thrombosis, Factor V Leiden, and prior history of kidn...
Case 41: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Skyler Sloane, Benjamin Supat
An 83-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of acute onset lower abdominal pain radiating to the right groin. The patient reported ...
Case 40: Rare Ocular Condition Diagnosed by Point-of-Care Ultrasound
Skyler Sloane & Andre Velazquez
A 73-year-old male presented to our emergency department with a chief complaint of new intermittent double vision for the past two weeks. The patient noticed tha...
Case 39: Superficial Thrombophlebitis
Aastha Shah
A 57-year-old male with a past medical history of HIV, hyperlipidemia (on a statin), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lumbar stenosis, and chronic diastolic heart failure p...
Case 38: Painless Worsening Vision
Liz Volochyna-Farber
A 37-year-old male with a past medical history of retinal detachment (RD) of the left eye (OS), left eye cataract surgery and retinal tear in the rigth eye (OD) s/p laser prese...
Case 37: Forearm Fracture
Teini Elisara
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An 82 year old female with a past medical history of anemia of chronic disease, breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, rectal adenocarcinoma, scleroderm...
Case 36: Retained Shrapnel
Grace Feng
Case: A 59-year-old male presented with a chief complaint of retained bullet in his abdomen. He reported a past medical history of multiple gunshot wounds in 2017 and had an exploratory ...