Archive for July 2013

Here’s the case. You see a 24 year old male who presents with a history of 2 minutes of pinpoint left chest pain 12 hours earlier. He has not had any pain since. At that time there was no shortness of Breath or radiation of the pain. The patient has no past medical history, is…

The story so far: A  72 yo man is brought into your emergency department by ambulance.  He called the ambulance as he felt his heart racing and he had some minor chest heaviness. When the ambulance arrived, the patient’s vitals were as follows:  GCS  15     Pulse  >200     BP  120/70  The monitor showed a tachycardia…