This case involves a fourteen-year-old male who presented to the emergency room with symptoms of a seizure. His parents said that he was walking in their house when he began to smell burning rubber. A few seconds later, he dropped…
This case involves a sixteen-year-old male who presented to the ER with fever, cough, shortness of breath, and intense chest pain. The boy’s past medical history included sickle cell anemia and recurrent infections. An x-ray was performed and he was…
Two days later, the emergency medicine team released her and stated that she was in good health. Three days later, she was brought back to the hospital with fever, cough, and chest pain. An x-ray revealed that she developed pneumonia…
This case involves a thirty-seven-year-old female who died of sepsis while being hospitalized for a skin infection. The woman presented to the emergency department with a red inflamed skin lesion on her leg which was diagnosed as cellulitis. Although antibiotics…
This case involves a fetus who was delivered at twenty-four weeks with hypoplastic lung disease. The mother experienced a premature rupture of membranes in the nineteenth week of pregnancy and was transported to the hospital. In spite of bed rest,…
This case involves a twenty-eight-year-old woman who was admitted to a hospital with a chief complaint of a fever of unknown origin. The patient had a history of bronchial asthma and chronic bronchitis that did not respond to multiple courses…
This case involves a fifty-two-year-old woman who was admitted to the hospital due to complaints of bloody stool. Studies and samples were ordered which did not show any source for the bleed. A colonoscopy was performed which revealed blood throughout…
This case involves a forty-two-year-old male patient who presented to his primary care physician with complaints of a mass in his right testicle. The PCP sent the patient for an ultrasound that was interpreted as normal and had no signs…
This case involves a patient who died nine months after taking 750mg of Levaquin for five days. The drug was prescribed for a suspected urinary tract infection, urolithiasis, and bronchopneumonia by an advanced nurse practitioner at an urgent care clinic.…
