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The answer to Friday’s quiz is…. Air in the Cavernous Sinuses. (see the areas circled in red and around them) How did it get there? Well, when the EMS people put the IV in and gave him fluids and Zofran, somehow some air got into the line and was injected into the vein. The air rises [...]
OK, this one is pretty subtle – and I imagine only a radiologist or a neurologist (no pressure Dr Grumpy) will see the abnormality on this head CT. History is that it is a 60 year old male with extensive cardiac history who called EMS because of severe sudden onset vertigo, nausea and vomiting. He got IV fluids [...] When one is planning an orgy, the most important part is the guest list. Obviously you want hot people. People with clean bills of health. And people with good bodily hygiene. Most sane people would agree on this. For some reason, if I were to organise a sex party, I might specifically try to exclude a known [...]
So, anyone that has gone to a rave (Nurse K, I think you are a prolific rave-goer) knows that many people there (lets call them “ravieurs”) get their kicks out of more than just monotonous, thumping, melody-less, techno and house music. They do tons – o – drugs! Yeah, there is old-school stuff like [...] Most times a patient that is triaged with a specific chief complaint ultimately have a diagnosis that appears to relate to that complaint. Such as “Chest Pain” often results in a diagnosis of “Unstable Angina” or “Pulmonary Embolus”. Occasionally something will be a little different like “Back Pain” turns out to be “Biliary Colic” or “MI”. [...] RN: “So, ma’am, you had a spinal fusion and had to cathertise yourself for a year? You’re pretty young, and said you have no medical history. What was the cause?” 22 Year old Patient: ” I don’t know, they said the nerves were damaged” RN: “Well, did you have any injuries that caused it?” Pt: “Well, I guess. I fell out [...] |
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