The chest x-ray is from a patient with severe dyspnoea. Patient has a past history of chronic airway obstruction. What can be seen? Continue reading
Category Archives: Advanced EM Cases
Lab case 405
60 year-year-old man with history of DM and x-smoker but not known to have COPD. Presented to an emergency department with shortness of breath. His blood gases showed the following:
PH = 7.30
pCO2 = 65 mmHg
Lab case 404 interpretation
PH = 7.395, that is within normal range.
pCO2 = 42 mmHg, Normal for venous blood gases ( Normal pCO2 is 40 mmHg for arterial blood and 48 mmHg for venous).
HCO3 = 25 mmol/L. that is very slightly above the normal (normal level is 24)
Imaging Case of the Week 551 Answer
The knee x-ray shows a bipartite patella. Continue reading
Imaging Case of the Week 550 Answer
The facial x-ray (OM view) shows Continue reading
Imaging Case of the Week 549 Answer
The neck x-ray shows Continue reading
Imaging Case of the Week 551
The following left knee x-rays are from a 60 year old with mild knee pain following a fall. What can be noted? Continue reading
Lab case 404
25 year-old-man with type 1 DM presented with diarrhoea and vomiting. His VBG showed the following:
PH = 7.395
pCO2 = 42 mmHg
pO2 = 54 mmHg
Lab case 403 interpretation
PH = 7.745, that is severe alkalaemia.
pCO2 = 36 mmHg is low so we have respiratory alkalosis. However this value is very close to normal value of 40. This won’t explain the severely elevated PH.
Imaging Case of the Week 550
Facial x-ray view is from an adult patient who has been punched in the face. What can be noticed? Continue reading