A 27 year old female presents to your ED with weakness and vomiting for the last three days.
Her blood results : Continue reading
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Lab Case 83
A 5 year old child presents to your Emergency Department feeling unwell with vomiting. Her blood results are as follows: Continue reading
Lab Case 51
A previously well 38 yo man presents with a week of worsening vomiting, diarrhoea and abdominal pain. On the day of presentation to the ED he has become drowsy and confused.
T 37 degrees Celsius
PR 110/min
BP 120/80 mmHg
GCS 12 (E3,V4,M5)
Lab Case 47
A 70 year old man presents to your ED feeling unwell with abdominal pain and vomiting for two days. He has a history of NIDDM, HTN and high Cholesterol. He is immediately triaged to your resuscitation bay, placed on 15 litres oxygen by non rebreather mask and iv access is obtained.
Vitals:
BP = 160/50
PR 115/min
T 37.5 Celsius
RR 40/min
His ABG and blood results are as follows Continue reading
Lab Case 29
A 17 year old female presents to your ED with 1 day of vomiting and epigastric pain. She had been on school camp and her symptoms started soon after eating a Kangaroo BBQ. She has a history notable for hypermobility syndrome and recurrent left greater trochanteric bursitis.
Describe and Interpret her VBG Continue reading
Lab Case 25
A 22 year old female presents to your ED with vomiting and abdominal pain. She is on Methadone and has failed to refill her prescription, so has been injecting Heroin over the last 2-3 days.
Describe and Interpret: Continue reading
Lab Case 23
A 3 month old girl is brought to your Emergency department after 3 days of diarrhoea and vomiting. She is unwell, lethargic, has sunken eyes, a sunken fontanelle and dry mucous membranes.
Describe and interpret her biochemical results Continue reading
Lab Case 15
A 65 year old man is brought to your Emergency Department by ambulance following several brown vomits.
On examination – jaundice, tachypnoea
BP 95/55, PR 120/min
Abd – soft and non tender
Describe and Interpret Continue reading