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A case from the library

Found drowsy and frothing at the mouth

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Rohan Kapoor

25 years · Male

Vitals

Heart rate
63 bpm
Blood pressure
110/80 mmHg
Resp. rate
20 /min
SpO₂
94%
Temperature
98 °F

How hard it is

A textbook presentation with no red herrings. The standard history questions are enough to get you there.

The diagnosis is not shown here. Finding it is the case.

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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.