Metabolic, drug and environmental
3 cases filed under metabolic, drug and environmental. Each opens on a tracing, asks what is on it, and ends with the reading worked through.
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Collapse on the cardiology ward
Admitted twelve days ago with an inferior STEMI treated with primary PCI to the right coronary artery. Started on sotalol 80 mg twice daily five days ago for recurrent…
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Weakness and palpitations after rapid weight loss for a boxing weigh-in
He has lost 7 kg in twelve days by restricting food and fluids, inducing vomiting and using stimulant laxatives. He takes no prescribed medication and has no known cardiac…
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Weakness and vomiting for three days
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, on ramipril, spironolactone, bisoprolol and furosemide. Type 2 diabetes on metformin. Has been vomiting and passing loose stool since…
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