Citation

Dean LA, Aaronson EL, Wittels K, Wilcox SR. J. Emerg. Med. 2019; 57(2): 241-244.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jemermed.2019.04.002

PMID

31164234

Abstract

Today's case is that of a 26-year-old man who was transferred to the emergency department (ED) by ambulance from the scene of a fall from a fourth-story window. The patient had been drinking alcohol that evening and the fall was witnessed, however, no additional information regarding the context of the fall was available. On the arrival of emergency medical services (EMS), the patient was unresponsive with a systolic blood pressure in the 80s and a heart rate in the 110s. His breathing was agonal, and he was intubated in the field without medication...

Language: en