Citation

Ma JL, Dutch MJ. Emerg. Med. Australas. 2013; 25(4): 368-371.

Affiliation

St John Ambulance Victoria, Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1742-6723.12101

PMID

23911030

Abstract

We report five patients who presented to an on-site medical team with concurrent haemoptysis and shortness of breath at a recent triathlon event. After initial management in the field, three of the five patients were transported to hospital via ambulance for further management, resulting in patients with haemoptysis and dyspnoea being 17 times more likely to require hospital transport. It is important to consider the differential diagnoses for this presentation, particularly exercise-induced pulmonary oedema.

Language: en