Acute Care

A 24-year-old woman presents with abrupt pounding in her neck and mild breathlessness that began while she was sitting at work. She is alert, warm and normotens…

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

A 34-year-old woman with asthma remains breathless in the emergency department after three nebulised doses of salbutamol and ipratropium and intravenous hydroco…