A 21 y/o M presents with chest pain and sudden syncope while walking to class earlier this morning. He had no other preceding symptoms. There was no seizure activity reported by witnesses. He denies any past medical or surgical history. He…

Sinai Daily Pearl 10/25

An infant is brought in with increased irritability x 2 days. The parents note that she hasn’t had any remarkable symptoms – no fever, cough, congestion, vomiting, diarrhea. She is tolerating feeds, but more fussy than usual. Your initial e…

Abdominal Pain in a Young Male

 A 14 y/o M presents to the ED complaining of severe intermittent low abdominal pain x 2 hours. His symptoms began after he awoke from sleep to urinate, and have been unremitting since. No history of trauma. He vomited once, 20 minutes prio…

Pulse Ox Issues

We’ve all experienced it. There’s an intubated patient who is stable, saturating >98% on pulse ox, and then all of a sudden you hear the monitor start alarming and the SpO2 is plummeting. Lets assume that all other vitals are…

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