Tag: Embolism
Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
CLINICAL SIGNS:
* Difficult diagnosis because signs are not very sensitive and not very specific.
* acute dyspnea of polypnea type (70%), cough (40%).
* chest pain (60%) with or without hemoptysis (10%), tachycardia (30%),...
Pulmonary Embolism
Warning:
• Diagnosis evoked by context and promoting the clinic.
• Any suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) requires a transfer to hospital for confirmation and initiation of...
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- He set any condition is clinically characterized by acute respiratory distress, radiologically by bilateral alveolar opacities and severe hypoxemia refractory to oxygen enrichment...
Chest pain
A few figures help to understand the problem that occurs most often in an emergency context:
- Chest pain represents about 5% of the chief...
Complicated fractures
1- Fat embolism:
A- General:
- Observed especially in case of fracture of the femoral shaft (> 2/3 of the causes of fat embolism)
- More frequently...
Purpura
DIAGNOSTIC :
Purpura is a red spot is not erasing the vitropression. It is due to the extravasation of red blood cells in the dermis.
The...
Venous thromboembolic disease and pregnancy
1- Summary:
Pregnancy is a physiological condition favoring the occurrence of venous thrombosis, and sometimes unmasking coagulopathy.
Due to the presence of the fetus, suspicion of...
Hemoptysis
* Pulmonary causes: proximal bronchial cancer (squamous cell carcinoma); pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB ongoing or bronchiectasis sequelae); DDB (recurrent hemoptysis) bronchial infections (acute bronchitis); pneumonia;aspergilloma;...
Pulmonary Embolism
* The respiratory impact is complex, often resulting to hypoxia without carbon dioxide retention. Both there is a dead space effect (broken not perfused...
Livedos
DIAGNOSIS:
The clinical appearance of livedos is the purple mesh on the skin.
Livedo corresponds to a blood stasis in the superficial venous plexus of the...
