A 55 year-old-male presents to the emergency department complaining of dizziness…
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An 86-year-old female with past medical history of atrial fibrillation and coronary artery disease on apixaban and clopidogrel presents as a trauma activation after a mechanical fall from standing at her nursing facility. She does not remember the fall, but her nurse reports she tripped over her walker, fell and struck her head. She did not lose consciousness…
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The overhead announcement goes off: “Team B to the trauma room”. The report: EMS is bringing a 2-year-old female that was found unresponsive in the family swimming pool by her mother after being alerted by an older sibling. Unknown downtime. The patient is being bagged by bag-valve mask (BVM) and has slow, but palpable, femoral pulses, she is unresponsive, ETA 2 minutes…
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“EMS called with a pediatric code in progress from a house fire, approximately 5 minutes out. A 2-year-old female with unknown past medical history was brought in with CPR in progress. History was limited as there was no family with the patient. Per EMS, firefighters were called to scene of a house fire and the patient and her sister were found in an upstairs bedroom, both unresponsive and pulseless…”
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An unknown age male, estimated 30 years old, is brought into the emergency department by emergency medical services in cardiac arrest. He was found unresponsive on a park bench outside on a cold night. When EMS arrived he was noted to be very cold with no palpable pulse, spontaneous respirations, or response to sternal rub. A supraglottic airway was placed but they were unable to establish IV access. They performed 30 minutes of chest compressions and brought him to the emergency department on a LUCAS device…
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