A 69-year-old female with a history of hypertension presents to the ED with near syncope. She had been walking around Newport on a hot day with her family when she began to feel lightheaded. Her family noted that she appeared pale and diaphoretic. She did not lose consciousness but she continued to feel weak and was brought to the emergency department…
Read MoreA 58-year-old woman with a past medical history significant for hypertension and hyperlipidemia presents to the Emergency Department with 3 days of dyspnea. She also endorses non exertional pleuritic chest pain, chills, and malaise that started on the morning of her presentation. Vital signs were notable for tachycardia of 110 beats per minute and an oxygen saturation of 93% on room air, but were otherwise normal. Physical exam revealed clear lung fields bilaterally and was otherwise unremarkable…
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