Practice Management
Case A 3-year-old girl was brought to urgent care with small widespread vesicles, including on her palms and soles. She had begun to develop painful oral vesicles, as well, and was refusing to eat. The rash began a few days after flu-like symptoms of fever, sore throat, cough, and headache. View the photo and consider what your diagnosis and next steps would be. Resolution of the case is described on the next page.
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Case The patient is a 20-year-old male who presents 2 days after getting hit in the face with an elbow during a pickup basketball game. His chief complaint is lingering nasal pain. View the image taken and consider what your diagnosis and next steps would be. Resolution of the case is described on the next screen.
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Case The patient is a 34-year-old woman who has just returned from the first camping trip of the year with her family. She relays that 2 days earlier, as she as she was setting up a tent, she “got stung” by something she didn’t see. As she struggled to free herself of the tent fabric, she was stung several more times on her hand and arm. She never saw the culprit. Not long after, she …
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Case The patient is a 17-year-old male who presents to urgent care with anterior knee pain after a fall while mountain biking. However, he states that he’d been experiencing pain for an indeterminate period of time before the incident that preceded his visit. View the image taken (Figure 1) and consider what the diagnosis and next steps would be. Resolution of the case is described on the next page. Figure 1.
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Figure 1. The patient is a 42-year-old man with a sensation he describes as his heart “flipping” intermittently for the last 3 days. He denies chest pain, shortness of breath, diaphoresis, or dizziness. Upon exam, you find: General: Alert and oriented X 3, sitting comfortably in a chair Lungs: CTAB Cardiovascular: RRR without murmur, rub, or gallop Abdomen: Soft and NT View the ECG taken and consider what the diagnosis and next steps would be. …
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The patient is a 90-year-old woman who presents to urgent care with a 2-week history of intermittent lightheadedness. She denies syncope, chest pain, shortness of breath, diaphoresis, or focal neurological symptoms. Upon exam, you find: General: Alert and oriented X 3, sitting fully dressed in a chair Lungs: CTAB Cardiovascular: RRR without murmur, rub, or gallop Abdomen: Soft and NT, no pulsatile mass Ext: No peripheral edema, pulses are 2+ and equal in all extremities …
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Case The patient is a 25-year-old man who presents with pain in his shoulder after falling from a ladder while cleaning out the gutters of his grandparents’ home. View the image taken (Figure 1) and consider what your diagnosis and next steps would be. Resolution of the case is described on the next page. Figure 1.
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Case The patient is a 45-year-old woman who presents after experiencing chest pain for the past 2 hours. She has some minimal dyspnea, but no diaphoresis. She takes birth control pills and is a smoker. She denies family history of cardiac disease. Upon exam, you find: General: Alert and oriented Lungs: CTAB Cardiovascular: RRR without murmur, rub, or gallop Abdomen: Soft and NT without r/r/g Ext: No peripheral edema or calf pain, pulses 2+ and …
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Case The patient is a 51-year-old man who presents to urgent care complaining of a persistent cough. He reports it started “about a month ago,” but his wife, who is with him, insists it’s been at least 6 weeks. View the image taken (Figure 1) and consider what your diagnosis and next steps would be. Resolution of the case is described on the next page.
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Figure 1. The patient is a 41-year-old woman who presents with wrist pain and swelling after falling on her outstretched hand in ulnar deviation. She says she stumbled stepping into the house while carrying groceries. View the image taken and consider your next steps, along with possible diagnoses.
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