A 61-year-old male with history of alcohol abuse and presumed cirrhosis presented to the emergency department with generalized weakness and right facial droop. He was found to be profoundly hypotensive and hypothermic with subsequent rapid decompensation requiring intubation and continuous norepinephrine infusion.
A four-year-old girl presented to the emergency department vomiting after a foreign body ingestion. An anteroposterior plain radiograph demonstrated a disc-shaped foreign body.
Fat embolism (FE) is a classically taught complication of long bone fractures, with the potential to cause high morbidity and mortality; however, it is rarely apparent on emergency department (ED) presentation or imaging.
A 34-year-old female with a history of methamphetamine-associated cardiomyopathy presented to the emergency department (ED) with generalized weakness, altered mental status, and chest pain.
A 30-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) complaining of right-hand pain after punching a wall in anger approximately one hour prior to arrival.
A 50-year-old woman with widely metastatic melanoma presented to the emergency department with dyspnea. She was found to be tachypneic, hypoxic, tachycardic, and hypotensive.
A 33-year-old obese male with a history of well-controlled type II diabetes and hyperlipidemia presented to the emergency department with a one-day history of recurrent non-bloody diarrhea and abdominal pain in the morning progressing to significant nausea, increased non-radiating abdominal pain, and multiple episodes of non-bilious, non-bloody emesis in the evening.
A 55-year-old female presented to the emergency department with an enlarging forehead mass after a fall with head injury two weeks prior. She reported focal, tender swelling to her right forehead and headache.
A 32-year-old female gravida 3 para 2 presented to the emergency department (ED) with two weeks of hyperpigmented macular and blistering rash involving bilateral upper and lower extremities (Image 1) and trunk (Image 2).
An 81-year-old male was referred by his general practitioner with a troponin-T of 153 nanograms per liter (ng/L) (reference range <5 ng/L) and chest pain ongoing for 13 hours on arrival.
A 25-year-old female with a history of sickle cell disease (on prophylactic penicillin VK) and venous thromboembolic disease (on oral anticoagulation with apixaban) presented to the emergency department with one week of right-sided neck pain and subjective fevers, and a one day history of trismus.
A 30-year-old male with history of bipolar disorder and previous incident of elemental mercury ingestion in a suicide attempt, presented to the emergency department with new-onset nausea and vomiting.
An 18-year-old male presented to the emergency department (ED) via ambulance after sustaining a blunt force injury to the left chest from a rocket-type firework.
A 53-year-old female with a history of hypertension, congestive heart failure, and generalized anxiety disorder taking 81 milligrams of aspirin daily presented as a trauma activation following a motor vehicle collision.
A 30-year-old male presented to the emergency department with intermittent neck pain, dysarthria, right facial droop, right-sided facial paresthesias and right upper extremity weakness for several days prior.
A 38-year-old Japanese housewife who was a heavy smoker was admitted to our hospital because of upper respiratory distress that developed half a year prior to admission.
A 13-year-old girl presented to the emergency department (ED) after her right knee was forced into valgus after making contact with the opposing goalkeeper while playing soccer.
A five-year-old male presented to the emergency department (ED) after falling off a stool while brushing his teeth, resulting in a penetrating oropharyngeal injury.