Clinical Cases
Interesting Cases from Day-to-Day Practice
Case 27: Ectopic Pregnancy
A 43 year old female with no past medical history presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with lower abdominal pain for the last three hours. She says she knows she is pregnant from a home pregnancy...
Case 26: Genicular Nerve Block for Knee Pain – A Novel Technique
A 68 year old female with no significant past medical history presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with one day of right knee pain after falling off her bicycle onto her right side. She was immed...
Case 25: Aortic Dissection
A 44 year old male with a history of heroin abuse presents to the emergency department with altered mental status. Per EMS, the patient was found on the street with decreased level of consciousn...
Case 24: Diverticulitis
A 56 year old male with a history of uncomplicated diverticulitis presented to the emergency room with left lower quadrant pain and loose stools for the last six days. He denies fever, vomiting...
Case 23: Diastolic Dysfunction
A 79 year old female presented to the emergency room with worsening dyspnea on exertion. She reported orthopnea, leg swelling, and only being able to walk a few steps without getting shor...
Case # 22: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
A 72 year old male with known abdominal aortic aneurysm (5.7 cm s/p fem-tib bypass, L AKA) presents for 3 weeks with diarrhea and mild LLQ pain. No nausea, vomiting, fever, back pain, urinary s...
Case # 21: A 28 Year Old With Shortness of Breath
A previously healthy 28-year-old male presents to the Emergency Department complaining of one month of fatigue, shortness of breath, and dyspnea on exertion. These symptoms were preceded by sym...
Case # 20: Right Lower Quadrant Pain
A 40 year old male presented with a 4 day history of right lower quadrant pain. He reported that the pain was at its worse when it started but gradually improved. When in the ED he noted only minimal ...
Case # 19: Under Pressure
A 27 year-old female presented to the emergency department with a two week history of headache, posterior eye pain, visual changes. She denied trauma, fever, focal neurological changes, or visual fiel...
Case # 18: Respiratory Distress: It’s not all COVID.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a 67 year old woman is brought to the ER by family for respiratory distress and altered mental status. She was alert but not oriented and unable to answer questions on ar...