Results for “dead space”

A 74-year-old man collapses in a shopping centre and is brought to the emergency department in cardiac arrest. Resuscitation is unsuccessful and he is declared…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 34-year-old bushwalker is winched out of a gully in the Stirling Range after a night in cold rain. He is unresponsive and pulseless. Cardiopulmonary resuscita…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 76-year-old man is admitted after falling down four steps at home. He weighs 75 kg. He has fractures of the left fifth to eighth ribs and it hurts him to brea…

Physiology · Foundations · middle twist

A 19-year-old man sustains a closed fracture of the right tibial shaft in a football tackle. The leg was grossly angulated at the scene and was straightened bef…

Anatomy · Foundations · middle twist

A 68-year-old man develops sudden pleuritic chest pain and tachypnoea after prolonged immobility. Arterial blood gas analysis on room air shows pH 7.48, PaCO2 3…

Biomedical Science · Mechanisms of disease · common