Ewok Jerky
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OK this one is NOT for all you veterans out there. Its not tricky, and not obscure, but my hope to help some relatively new peeps how to assess a Pt. I want to know what you are thinking and why, what is your differential and how can you narrow it down to a working diagnosis?
You work in a medium sized suburban town with several area hospitals. It is 0830 and you are dispatched for 34 y/o F with chest pain. You arrive on scene to a 2-floor residence in a densly populated, middle class development. You walk inside to find the Pt lying on the couch wearing a hoodie and a blanket over her body. Her (presumble) husband is in the room with a newborn child in his arms.
What are you thinking? What are your primary concerns? What more info do you need?
*if you already know what her pathology is don't just post it, let someone else think it through for themselves!
You work in a medium sized suburban town with several area hospitals. It is 0830 and you are dispatched for 34 y/o F with chest pain. You arrive on scene to a 2-floor residence in a densly populated, middle class development. You walk inside to find the Pt lying on the couch wearing a hoodie and a blanket over her body. Her (presumble) husband is in the room with a newborn child in his arms.
What are you thinking? What are your primary concerns? What more info do you need?
*if you already know what her pathology is don't just post it, let someone else think it through for themselves!