Emergency Medicine

A previously healthy 47-year-old woman presents to an urgent care facility with chief complaint of acute abdominal pain.

A 67-year-old woman presented to the otolaryngologist’s office with a 2-week history of recurrent epistaxis and nasal airway obstruction limited to the right nasal passage.

A 72-year-old man presented to the hospital for an apparent thrombotic stroke. Regarding the present illness, the patient’s history began about 3 months prior, when a friend noticed that the patient’s left...

A 66-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with mid and left upper quadrant abdominal pain and shortness of breath. The patient had been complaining of coughing and increased shortness of...

A 69-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with a dull, but worsening headache.

An 8-year-old girl presented to an outside community emergency department (ED) with 2 weeks of joint pain impeding her ability to walk and progressive abdominal pain.

A 32-year-old man from northern Mexico who worked as a landscaper presented to the emergency department with a 4-month history of increasing pain and swelling of his left wrist and fingers as well as raised...

A 50-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) after slipping on a wet stone surface while fishing at a beer festival. He presents with altered mental status and a vague symptom of headache. ...

A 20-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 3- to 4-week history of worsening dyspnea upon exertion, lower extremity edema, weakness, anorexia, and vomiting.

A 22-month-old boy presented to the emergency department following an accidental ingestion of potassium permanganate (KMnO4).