
A 35 year old homeless man presents with two months of increasing cough. He has no other medical past history.
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A 35 year old homeless man presents with two months of increasing cough. He has no other medical past history.

Consider a 56 year old male with no past medical history presenting with 10 days of fevers, chills, myalgias and cough followed by worsening breathlessness over the past 4 days.

Consider a 73 year old female admitted with vomiting and subsequent chest pain.
This is her admission chest X-ray.

An 18 year old woman with a history of asthma since childhood presents with a one month history of weight loss, cough and malaise. She has been treated with two courses of antibiotics by her local GP. She now presents with increasing shortness of breath. A CXR is shown.

A two month old baby girl has been intubated for respiratory distress and drowsiness. The PaO2 is 82% post intubation.

An 11 year old female with Down’s syndrome presents with acute respiratory distress following a 3 day history of fever, rhinorrhoea and dry cough. A CXR is performed following her intubation.

A 52 year old woman presents to your emergency department with gradually increasing breathlessness over the preceding three days. It is one week since her last chemotherapy treatment for cancer.

A 20 year old man presents to your emergency department with central chest pain that commenced after recreational drug use at a party two hours earlier.

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