Emergency Medicine Case Studies
Case A - Possible Toxin Ingestion
A 43-year-old white male with a history of depression and alcohol abuse
was found lethargic on the floor of his room by his family. He was brought
to the emergency room, where he was found to be confused; he became comatose
over the next hour.
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Case B - Evaluation of Hyponatremia
The supervisor in the stat laboratory noticed that the results on a patient
in the operating room had changed significantly since the previous evening,
as shown in the accompanying table.
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Case C - Evaluation of Hyponatremia
A 32-year-old male presented with a history of one episode of passing
blood in his stool. He had a history of alcohol abuse, and had been in
an automobile accident the previous year, injuring his head.
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Case D - Evaluation of Hyponatremia
The evening supervisor notes that a patient's serum sodium has failed
delta check alerts compared to the results from the previous week. She
had run the initial specimen on the Beckman CX-7, and repeated the test
on the Ektachem.
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Case E - Evaluation of Hyponatremia
A 74-year-old man was admitted in February with a stroke. After about
one month in the hospital, he developed shortness of breath and was found
to have pneumonia, which was resistant to treatment, raising the possibility
of an ongoing source.
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