A 75 year-old male with a past medical history of coronary artery disease, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia presents to the Emergency Department via EMS for concern of altered mental status. His wife is present at the bedside and states that he been becoming progressively more confused over the past 2 days. Prior to this episode, he …
A 40-year-old male presents to the ED for headache and nausea following dialysis. He states that he normally has a headache at baseline at the back of his head but after this dialysis session, it became acutely worse and was associated with nausea, vomiting, and blurry vision. He has been compliant with his dialysis sessions …
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A 31 year old female with a PMH significant for epilepsy and intellectual disability presents to the ED via EMS due to continuous seizure activity. EMS reports that the patient was having tonic-clonic seizures for 30 minutes prior to their arrival—family did not feel comfortable administering her abortive antiepileptic medications as they only had Ativan …
A 50-year-old female comes to the ED with a headache. The room is dark as I enter and she is holding her head with her hands. She reports that the pain started suddenly while driving and was instantly the worst headache she ever had. The pain hasn't changed at all. There was no trauma. She …
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