CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 55-year-old male patient with superior vena cava (SVC) obstruction secondary to a mediastinal mass is scheduled for bronchoscopy and mediastinoscopy. The patient weighs 120…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen On a Saturday morning, a 42-year-old male presents to the operating room for an urgent cystoscopy to remove a high ureteric stone. He is a…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 50-year-old male presents with a 6-month history of progressive paraparesis. He had sustained a fall at work about 12 months ago and has complained…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen This 33-year-old white female patient with Down syndrome (DS) (Figure 35–1) presented to the gastrointestinal (GI) service with a history of vomiting blood. You first…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A previously well 50-year-old physician presented to hospital with fever, lethargy, nausea, and diarrhea. He had returned from Sierra Leone 5 days prior where he…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 28-year-old, previously healthy female was thrown off an all terrain vehicle (ATV) and sustained blunt trauma to her chest. Her injuries included a flail…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 70-year-old depressed man presents after attempted suicide by shooting himself with a handgun held under his jaw. He is seated upright and leaning forward…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 52-year-old worker of normal body habitus was injured in a fall from approximately 15 feet (5 m) of height. He sustained fractures to the…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 32-year-old man (Figure 28–1) presented to the emergency department (ED) with dysphagia, dysphonia, and dyspnea. Further inquiry revealed a 1-week history of right-sided jaw…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A respiratory arrest occurs in the intermediate care unit on the surgical ward. The patient is an elderly man in a cervical halo, 3 days…
