CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 30-year-old male arrives by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) helicopter with a tree branch impaled in his neck (see Figure 24–1). It is apparent that…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 57-year-old man was brought to the emergency department by Emergency Medical Service (EMS) with burns to the head, face, and chest secondary to smoking…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen Emergency Medical Service (EMS) presents with a 26-year-old male who is agitated and combative, in severe respiratory distress. Per EMS report, he has a history…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 21-year-old man is brought to the emergency department (ED) after sustaining a close range shot gun blast to the face and neck. He appears…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 29-year-old male motorcyclist presents to the emergency department (ED) accompanied by a paramedic rescue team after being involved in a high-speed motor vehicle crash…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen On a stormy night in the countryside, a 72-year-old male driver falls asleep at the wheel and strays into on-coming traffic. A transport truck trying…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 67-year-old woman presents to the emergency department (ED) by ambulance with a 3-hour history of increasing dyspnea associated with chest pain. She has a…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 25-year-old male drives into an unseen wire while he is snowmobiling. The wire strikes his anterior neck and throws him from his snowmobile. Paramedics…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen You are the emergency physician on duty for aeromedical transport calls. You are called to the scene of a motor vehicle collision in a remote…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen An Advanced Life-Support Emergency Services unit brought a 35-year-old male into the emergency department (ED) “backboarded and collared.” The patient was an unrestrained driver who…
