A case from the library
Breathless lying flat at 40 weeks
Obstetrics & GynecologyEasy
Ashley Robinson
27 years · Female
Vitals
- Heart rate
- 140 bpm
- Blood pressure
- 108/72 mmHg
- Resp. rate
- 26 /min
- SpO₂
- 93%
- Temperature
- 98.4 °F
How hard it is
A textbook presentation with no red herrings. The standard history questions are enough to get you there.
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Source
Adapted from a case report published in Clinical Case Reports, under the CC BY 4.0 license. The patient's name and some details are invented; the clinical picture follows the report. The report names the diagnosis.
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