Also known as: GSW to chest
14-year-old boy with multiple gunshot wounds to chest and abdomen. Patient arrives in full cardiac arrest after 35+ minutes down, team attempts resuscitation including thoracotomy but patient dies after 45 minutes of resuscitation attempts.
Also known as: Head laceration
7-year-old child from MVA brought in with closed head injury requiring neurosurgery consult and mannitol administration.
Also known as: Scalding burn
Young boy with burn to hand sustained while setting motel room on fire. Case becomes complicated when patient attempts to set fire to ER curtains, revealing serious psychiatric issues and unsafe home environment.
Also known as: Fire-setting behavior
9-year-old patient with severe behavioral disorder manifesting as fire-setting. Sets fire to motel room and later to ER curtains. Requires psychiatric evaluation but mother removes him from hospital AMA.
Also known as: PID
Recurring patient presenting with pelvic pain, diagnosed with PID and treated with ceftriaxone and azithromycin.
51-year-old male with acute groin pain, nausea, vomiting, and tender nonreducible right groin mass consistent with strangulated hernia. Taken emergently to OR.
Also known as: Blood around the heart
15-year-old football player with blunt chest trauma from helmet impact develops acute pericardial tamponade with muffled heart sounds, JVD, and crashing blood pressure. Successfully treated with pericardiocentesis.
Patient presenting with severe jaundice, diagnosed with probable alcoholic hepatitis and started on IV fluids and liver function tests.
Also known as: Kidney injury from bus accident
Bank robber hit by car with blunt trauma to abdomen, both legs and head, requiring peritoneal lavage and trauma workup.
Also known as: Heat illness
Patient brought in by paramedics with heat-related illness initially misdiagnosed as seizure by inexperienced paramedic.
Also known as: Cold
Infant with fever and cold requiring evaluation in ER, causing concern for possible bacteremia versus roseola versus simple URI.