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Case 45: Distal Both Bone Fracture
Teini Elisara
Case
An 82 year old female with a past medical history of anemia of chronic disease, breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, rectal adenocarcinoma, scleroderma with pulmonary involvement, and systemic lupus erythematosus presented to the emergency department after a mechanical ...
Case 44: Interscalene Nerve Block for Shoulder Dislocation
Josh Gieschen
Case:
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 left shoulder. He has never dislocated his shoulder before. His pain is 8/10 and limited to the L shoulder, worse with mot...
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 with SpO2 90% on room air. The patient had a recent admission for right middle and lower lobe pneumonia. He also reported...
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 kidney stones presenting with right sided flank pain, dysuria, and hematuria worsening over the past 4 days. He reports simi...
Case 41: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Skyler Sloane, Benjamin Supat, Colleen Campbell
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 a history of hypertension, coronary artery disease, and nephrolithiasis.
Vitals: BP 71/51 | P...
Case 40: Rare Ocular Condition Diagnosed by Point-of-Care Ultrasound
Skyler Sloane, Andre Velazquez, Colleen Campbell
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 that he saw double when looking at signs on the freeway. These were new symptoms he had not experienced in the...
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 presented with a chief complaint of pain and swelling in the right inguinal region for the past 3 days. The patient repor...
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 presents to Emergency Department (ED) on a Sunday with painless worsening right eye vision. It started with a floater in the ...