Burns COPD Infectious Diseases 
RebelEM
JULY 7, 2025
Immediate Action: Use your eyes (chest rise), your ears (stethoscope), and brain (putting together all of the pieces together) Short, Shallow Breathing: Think Three Major Buckets Neuromuscular Disease Myasthenia gravis crisis, Guillain-Barré, myopathies, frailty. Severe Bronchospasm Asthma, COPD, anaphylaxis.
EMDocs
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
A 65-year-old male with a past medical history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on 2 liters per minute (LPM) nasal cannula at baseline, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and polypectomy presents to the ED with 2 days of worsening shortness of breath, pleuritic chest pain, persistent fevers, and productive coughs with occasional hemoptysis.
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