A middle aged man presents complaining of foreign body sensation in his eye, subjective fever, pain with spontaneous eye opening and ipsilateral ear pain. On exam, you don’t see any foreign bodies, but you do note multiple corneal infiltrates. What’s going on? Epidermal keratoconjunctivitis. Caused by adenovirus […]
daily EM pearl, 4/14/12
Posted onA young woman is BIBEMS to your trauma bay. She has been assaulted, has multiple signs of trauma with a GCS of 6 and saliva is noted to be pooling in her mouth and onto the bed. After a swift and successful intubation you further assess the patient. Her right eye is proptotic and she […]