You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Image Challenge
A man with sudden loss of consciousness
  1. Fulvio Morello1,
  2. Simona Veglia2,
  3. Enrico Lupia1
  1. 1 D.E.A. e S.C. Medicina d’Urgenza, Ospedale Molinette, A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza, Torino, Italy
  2. 2 S.C. Radiologia, Ospedale Molinette, A.O.U.Città della Salute e della Scienza, Torino, Italy
  1. Correspondence to Dr Fulvio Morello, Emergency Department, A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza, Molinette Hospital, C.so Bramante 88, 10126 Torino, Italy; fmorello{at}cittadellasalute.to.it

https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2017-206927

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Clinical introduction

    A 73-year-old man with a history of smoking, alcohol abuse, hypertension and diabetes was brought to the Emergency Department after a sudden loss of consciousness. Blood pressure was 80/60 mm Hg, heart rate was 100/min, respiratory rate was 30/min, pulse oximetry was 80% on ambient air and temperature was 36°C. On physical examination, he was unresponsive, his skin was mottled, no signs of trauma were evident, respiratory sounds were reduced on the left hemithorax and pulses were symmetrical. The ECG showed sinus tachycardia with diffuse ST segment depression. A portable chest X-ray (CXR) was performed …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Contributors FM managed and reviewed the case and wrote the manuscript. SV analysed and reviewed radiological data and contributed to manuscript review. EL contributed to the case and manuscript review.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Ethics approval Comitato Etico Interaziendale, Torino.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.