Christmas Surprises

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Pat Croskerry
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Community Hospital ◽  
Rural Hospital ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Aged Woman ◽  
Middle Aged Woman ◽  
Case Outcome

Case 1 introduces a middle-aged woman with bradycardia who is transferred from a rural hospital to the emergency department of a community hospital. She has an external pacemaker and is unconscious on arrival. An account of the course of her management is provided, along with an exploration of prevailing conditions and cognitive processes and biases that led to the case outcome.

The Lost Guide

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-224
Author(s):  
Pat Croskerry
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Hemorrhagic Shock ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Inattentional Blindness ◽  
Medical Emergency ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Aged Woman ◽  
Cognitive Failure ◽  
Procedural Error ◽  
Middle Aged Woman

In this case, a previously healthy, middle-aged woman presents at the emergency department of a teaching hospital in severe hemorrhagic shock. Despite this being a reasonably straightforward medical emergency, she is exposed to a succession of significant iatrogenic events, including procedural error, from which she makes a full recovery. The most striking cognitive failure in the case is a collective inattentional blindness in a variety of individuals from several different specialties.

A Middle-Aged Woman Falls in the Emergency Department

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 613-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Castner ◽  
Colleen Sudyn ◽  
Jeanette Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Aged Woman ◽  
Middle Aged Woman

scholarly journals Surgical Emphysema in the Neck as a Result of a Dental Procedure

2005 ◽  
Vol 84 (11) ◽  
pp. 723-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moghira Iqbal ◽  
Mubasher Ikram ◽  
Farhan Raza ◽  
Ninette Banday
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Subcutaneous Emphysema ◽  
Prophylactic Antibiotic ◽  
Dental Restoration ◽  
Dental Procedure ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Aged Woman ◽  
Middle Aged Woman ◽  
Surgical Emphysema ◽  
Antibiotic Coverage

We report the development of subcutaneous emphysema in a middle-aged woman that occurred several hours after she had undergone a dental restoration procedure. The patient presented to the emergency department, and she was admitted for observation and prophylactic antibiotic coverage. She recovered in 3 days without further intervention and was discharged.

A middle aged woman with isolated ACTH deficiency associated with transient GH deficiency

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Mangual ◽  
Jose Hernan-Martinez ◽  
Monica Santiago ◽  
Carlos Figueroa ◽  
Rafael Trinidad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gh Deficiency ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Isolated Acth Deficiency ◽  
Acth Deficiency ◽  
Aged Woman ◽  
Middle Aged Woman
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