Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
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aka Cardiovascular Curveball 013 A junior colleague asks if he can discuss a case with you. His patient is a 23 year-old man who presents with 2 hours of rapid regular palpitations associated with ‘not feeling quite right’. These symptoms came on while he was running on a treadmill at his local gym. He has [...]
A 27 year-old man sustained an undisplaced midshaft fracture of his left tibia after his girlfriend inadvertently (or so she said…) backed into him in her car, with the rear bumper pinning his leg against the car behind. Following an orthopedic consult, he was put in a long leg cast and sent home…what happened next?
You’ve just been handed over a patient who has an altered mental status when the phone rings. It’s the lab – you’re told that your patient has a serum ammonia level of 250 umol/L (reference range, 11-35 umol/L). WTF?
