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The acute respiratory distress syndrome in an adult patient presenting with sepsis.

Publication details

P El-Dalil, L Harding, P Ellahee, W Tunnicliffe
Foundation Years Journal, volume 5, issue 9, p.92 (123Doc Education, London, October 2011)

Abstract

You are the Foundation Year doctor called to see Mr R, a 27 year old man who has presented to the Emergency Department with severe central chest pain. Mr R reports a week's history of fever, myalgia, and loss of appetite; his chest pain developed over the past 24 hours and has increased in severity over the past 2 hours. On examination Mr R was pyrexial (temperature 38.3°C), tachycardic (HR 126 bpm), tachypnoeic (RR 34) with a blood pressure of 64/40mmHg.

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Authors

P El-Dalil

Foundation Year 2 (FY2) Critical Care

L Harding

CT1 Anaesthesia

P Ellahee

Registrar in Anaesthesia and Critical Care

W Tunnicliffe

Consultant in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine,
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way,
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2WB.

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