Also known as: Blood in chest cavity
Marathon runner hit by a car with brakes failure, sustaining severe chest trauma with collapsed lung and massive bleeding requiring emergency chest tube placement in the field and eventual thoracic surgery with portable bypass.
Also known as: Torn aorta
Rib fracture perforated the patient's aorta requiring emergency aortic cross-clamping in the field and innovative use of portable bypass to prevent death while transporting to surgery.
Also known as: High blood pressure in the lungs
Elderly patient with complex cardiac history presenting with heat exhaustion, whose pulmonary hypertension was initially overlooked leading to inappropriate fluid orders that could have caused heart failure.
Also known as: Heat illness
Elderly woman living without air conditioning during extreme heat wave presents with difficulty breathing and elevated temperature requiring cooling measures and hydration.
Also known as: Narcotic overdose
Patient experiences unexpected severe respiratory depression and code blue after receiving hydromorphone, later revealed to be due to opioid naivety from selling her prescribed pain medications for income.
Also known as: Marble bone disease
Eight-year-old girl presents with sudden onset deafness and history of multiple fractures initially suspected to be abuse, ultimately diagnosed as genetic bone disease causing abnormally dense, brittle bones and progressive hearing loss requiring bone marrow transplant.
Also known as: Nerve compression in wrist
Child exhibits hand weakness discovered during examination, later determined to be secondary to her osteopetrosis causing nerve compression in the wrists.
Also known as: Undernourishment
Elderly patient's lab work reveals she is undernourished with elevated taurine levels suggesting consumption of cat food due to financial hardship from selling her medications to make ends meet.