Results for “pulse oximetry”

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 63-year-old man with renal colic is receiving morphine 2.5 mg intravenously every 5 minutes on your instruction. He has now had 12.5 mg and says the pain has…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 34-year-old woman has had 8 months of heavy menstrual bleeding. She is breathless climbing one flight of stairs and tired all day. Her conjunctivae are pale.…

Physiology · Foundations · middle twist

A 62-year-old man describes tightness across the chest when he walks up the hill to his home; it settles within three minutes of rest. He first noticed it a mon…

Physiology · Foundations · common

A 32-year-old man is rescued from a burning warehouse. He is confused, hypotensive and tachypnoeic, with soot on his face but no wheeze. His pulse oximeter read…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist

A laboratory technician is found unconscious in a poorly ventilated garage. Arterial blood shows pH 7.39, PaO2 13.0 kPa (reference 10.7–13.3 kPa), and PaCO2 5.1…

Biomedical Science · Mechanisms of disease · common