If I wasn’t an emergency doctor, there is no doubt that I would be in palliative care. Therefore, high quality palliative care in the emergency department is a bit of a soapbox issue for me. When I originally wrote my approach to palliative dyspnea, I said that high flow humidified […]
respiratory distress
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Case A 58 year old woman is brought in by EMS with acute onset respiratory distress. Over the last few hours, she has found it increasingly difficult to breathe. On arrival, she is diaphoretic and using accessory muscles. She is quite tachypneic at a rate of 45 breaths a minute, […]
