83-year-old Woman with a Fever and Emesis
| dc.contributor.author | Birch, Shelly | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dubbs, Sarah B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bontempo, Laura J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dezman, Zachary D.W. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-22T14:03:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-22T14:03:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-10-04 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10713/20201 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An 83-year-old Filipino woman was brought to the emergency department (ED) by family for chief complaints of fever and emesis. Much of the patient’s history and review of systems was obtained through her daughters, as the patient only spoke Tagalog and had severe dementia. The patient lives with her daughters who are her primary caregivers. The patient’s husband is deceased. The daughters report that the patient was at her baseline mental status the night before. This morning they found her warm to the touch and obtained an oral temperature of 38.3° Celsius. She was constantly shifting her gaze about the room and appeared mildly distressed. She then had one episode of non-bloody, non-bilious emesis, so the daughters decided to bring her to the ED for evaluation | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2018.10.40507 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine | en_US |
| dc.title | 83-year-old Woman with a Fever and Emesis | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.5811/cpcem.2018.10.40507 | |
| dc.source.journaltitle | Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine | |
| dc.source.volume | 2 | |
| dc.source.issue | 4 | |
| dc.source.beginpage | 276 | |
| dc.source.endpage | 282 |