Emergency Medicine

A 37-year-old gravida two para one woman at 35 weeks and 3 days of gestation presented to labor and delivery triage with a two-day history of gestational hypertension, headaches, and visual disturbances. ...

A 3-year-old boy presented with abdominal pain and vomiting for 4 days. During that time, he had five or six episodes of vomiting accompanied by diffuse abdominal pain.

The length of time on invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) increases the potential for numerous severe and even life-threatening complications, such as volutrauma, barotrauma, infection, damage to vocal...

A 26-year-old woman presented to the emergency department (ED) with progressive confusion and recurrent falls. The patient reported having vomiting and diarrhea for 1 week and several falls 1 day before her...

A 66-year-old, right-handed man presented to the emergency department (ED) reporting the perception of hearing speech “in fast forward.” The perception was intermittent; episodes lasted for a few minutes...

A 60-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with blunt thoracic trauma after a head-on motor vehicle accident.

A 38-year-old man presents to the emergency room for acute onset weakness for the past day. The patient reported acute onset lower extremity weakness that started the same morning of presentation.

A 74-year-old woman with a past medical history of stage 4 invasive ductal carcinoma presented to the emergency department with fatigue and gradually worsening dyspnea during the past 2 months.

A 63-year-old man with a medical history significant for Bell palsy, non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, and hepatitis C virus...

This paper summarizes a case of botulism in a 69-year-old man caused by Clostridium baratii (C. baratii) type F toxin and the resultant investigation conducted at a local health department. The case is...