A 55 year old man presents to the emergency department with chest pain and shortness of breath following vomiting four hours earlier. On examination the patient is distressed by chest pain and has the following observations.
Quiz Radiology 024
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A 35 year old homeless man presents with two months of increasing cough. He has no other medical past history.
Pneumonia gone bad
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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.
Roast duck and juniper beer
November 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Consider a 73 year old female admitted with vomiting and subsequent chest pain. This is her admission chest X-ray.
Quiz Radiology 023
November 8, 2009 By
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.
Quiz Radiology 019
November 7, 2009 By
A distressed 60 year old man from a nursing home is brought into the ED having ‘choked on his dentures’.
Quiz Paediatrics 014
November 7, 2009 By
A two month old baby girl has been intubated for respiratory distress and drowsiness. The PaO2 is 82% post intubation.
Quiz Paediatrics 009
November 4, 2009 By
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.
Quiz Radiology 009
November 4, 2009 By
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.
Quiz Radiology 008
November 4, 2009 By
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.
