A 26 year old man with severe abdominal pain, on background of excess alcohol intake presents with Continue reading
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Lab Case 146
An 85 year old female with bowel obstruction is in your Emergency department for the past 12 hours waiting for a bed. She has been seen by the general surgical team and accepted for admission. She has been having increasing pain and abdominal distension requiring opiate analgesics. The nurse has interrupted you on multiple occasions because the patient is becoming increasingly tired and breathless with some mild confusion. You are slightly annoyed by this and finally decide to see the patient. You find the patient looking unwell, on 4 litres oxygen in you short stay ward. You decide to move the patient to the resuscitation area and do “blood tests”
Her ABG shows: Continue reading
Lab Case 145
An 80 year old man is sent in to your Emergency department by his Surgeon after a routine checkup 5 weeks post bowel resection for bowel obstruction.
He is noted to be pale and unwell.
Vital Signs:
BP 100/60
PR 95/min
His blood tests: Continue reading