Results for “hypercapnia”

A 24-year-old woman is admitted with an exacerbation of asthma. After an hour of nebulised salbutamol and ipratropium and oral prednisolone she is speaking in f…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

You are the intern on night cover. At 02:00 the nurse asks you to see a 68-year-old man on the second night after a right hemicolectomy. His respiratory rate is…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

In late July a 34-year-old man attends with both his housemates. All three have had headache, nausea and poor concentration that build up through each evening a…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 58-year-old man is admitted with three days of fever and a productive cough. He weighs 138 kg, uses continuous positive airway pressure at home for witnessed…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 74-year-old woman with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with increasing dyspnoea and drowsiness during a respiratory infection. On room a…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

A 68-year-old man with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with increasing breathlessness and purulent sputum. He has received controlled oxyg…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

A 21-year-old man collapses at the 14 km mark of a city fun run on a 34°C day. In the trackside medical tent he is confused and agitated with a Glasgow Coma Sca…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

A 34-year-old woman taking sertraline 100 mg daily for depression presents with two hours of agitation and profuse sweating. Two days earlier her general practi…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 71-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with two days of worsening breathlessness and purulent sputum. She is treated with 28% o…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · middle twist