February 12th, 2014
Case: Cardiorespiratory Arrest Requiring Intubation in a Patient with Diastolic Heart Failure
Saurav Chatterjee, MD and James Fang, MD
A 65-year-old African American woman with a history of hypertension, diabetes, and seizure disorder is brought to the ED via emergency medical services for respiratory distress requiring intubation. Two weeks earlier she was hospitalized for an exacerbation of acute diastolic heart failure; a transthoracic echocardiogram at that time documented an LV ejection fraction of 60% […]
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