All tagged reviewer: Winston Wu | MD
A 79-year-old male with a history of hypertension, peripheral arterial disease, hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease, and diabetes presents to your community emergency department with sudden onset vision loss of the right eye, with onset two hours prior to arrival. Should you administer tenecteplase to this patient?
A thirty-year-old male presents to the emergency department (ED) as the unrestrained driver of a rollover motor vehicle accident. During his trauma assessment, the patient becomes progressively more dyspneic, and you are unable to auscultate breath sounds on the right chest wall. Do you reach for the pigtail catheter (PTC) (</=14 French) or the large bore catheter (LBC) that you were trained to place for a hemothorax (28-32 French)?