It's a quiet Sunday afternoon when you're dispatched to a residence for a 77 year old female complaining of abdominal pain. Your dispatch notes indicates she was at the ED the day prior. Upon your arrival, you're met on the porch by the patient's son who directs you inside. Your patient is sitting in a […]
Thanks go to a long time reader Nicholas Eisele for this holiday case! As always, details have been changed to protect patient privacy. It is a blustery Christmas morning when you and your partner are dispatched for a 47 year old male with chest pain. Firefighters are already on scene obtaining a history and vitals […]
This case comes from a reader who wishes to remain anonymous, as always details have been changed to protect patient and provider privacy. You're working an overtime shift at a college football game on a hot Saturday in August, when a man flags down your crew. You head on over and are directed into one […]
This is the discussion for 63 year old male CC: Substernal Chest Pain, brought to you by Dr. Brooks Walsh of Mill Hill Avenue Command and Doc Cottle's Desk. Be sure to review the first part! When we last left off, our patient was a 63 year old male complaining of substernal chest pain which awoke […]