A case from the library
Sore throat and refusing to eat in a toddler
Infectious DiseaseEasy
Oliver Brown
14 months · Male
Vitals
- Heart rate
- 128 bpm
- Blood pressure
- 96/58 mmHg
- Resp. rate
- 26 /min
- SpO₂
- 99%
- Temperature
- 99.1 °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 Case Reports in Otolaryngology, 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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