Pulmonary panic
A 17 year old female with a background history of HIV presents with a 3 day history of fevers, chills and rigors. Her admission chest X-rays are shown below:
Category Respiratory
Pneumonia gone bad
Consider a 56 year old male with no past medical history presenting with 10 days of fevers, chills, myalgia and cough followed by worsening breathlessness over the past 4 days.
Roast duck and juniper beer
Consider a 73 year old female admitted with vomiting and subsequent chest pain. This is her admission chest X-ray.
Not just a PE
A classic respiratory case. This 25 year old female presented with worsening breathless. She has no previous medical problems.
Not just pneumonia
A 30 year-old male presented with 24 hours of worsening respiratory distress, following a 5-day prodrome of cough, fever, diarrhoea, lethargy and malaise.
John Cheyne
John Cheyne (1777 – 1836) was a Scottish surgeon and physician. Eponymously affiliated with Cheyne-Stokes Respiration (1818)
Cheyne-Stokes respiration
Description Cheyne-Stokes respiration History 1818 – John Cheyne 1854 – William Stokes 1953 – On March 4th 1953, the Soviet press announced that Joseph Stalin was ill and had ‘Cheyne-Stokes respiration‘. The following day he died. Associated Persons References Original…
Adolph Kussmaul
Adolph Kussmaul (Adolf Kußmaul) (1822 – 1902) was a German physician. Eponym Kussmaul breathing in Diabetic ketoacidosis (1874)
Camille Biot
Camille Biot (1850 – 1918) was a French physician. Most famous for describing Biot breathing. Biography Born 19 December 1850 Chatenoy-le-Royal, France Intern at Hôtel Dieu Hospital in Lyon, France Practiced in Maçon in 1875 Became member of L’Académie de…
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Swiss start prescribing the playing of the didgeridoo as a treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea.
Interpreting Chest X-Rays with Dr Eric Strong
Dr Eric Strong is Clinical Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and has created a YouTube Education Channel with a variety of well thought out, well paced, information rich, free lectures which deal with some of the…
Where should I stick this?
Searching my image library for adjunctive multimedia has brought back some great memories. Indeed wearing my retrospectacles affords wistful reminiscences of the persistent, whining and obtuse questions I asked (without research) of my mentors during training.