Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Jawaid S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4054466 | biostudies-other | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
The paramedics brought a 60-year-old man to the emergency department after a sudden onset of shortness of breath with a subsequent drop in the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). On arrival the patient looked peri-arrest. His O2 saturations were 84% on 15 L of oxygen. He had gasping breathing with a completely silent chest and the GCS was 6/15 (E=1, V=1, M=4). The blood gas revealed type-2 respiratory failure. The chest X-ray was unremarkable and ECG was not indicative for cardiac catheterisation lab acti ...[more]