Pulmonary/Respiratory Emergencies selected from SAEM and IFEM undergraduate curriculum are uploaded into the website. You can read, all these chapters freely. More specific disease entities are on the way.
Asthma
by Ayse Ece Akceylan Case Presentation A 50-year-old male with a history of asthma presents to the emergency department (ED) with shortness of breath, tachypnea,
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
by Ramin Tabatabai, David Hoffman, and Tiffany Abramson Case Presentation A 68-year-old male presents to the emergency department (ED) with audible wheezing, and he is
Pneumonia
by Mary J. O. Case Presentation A 74-year-old male with a history of hypertension and diabetes presented to the emergency department with a cough productive
Spontaneous Pneumothorax
by Mahmoud Aljufaili Introduction Pneumothorax refers to the presence of air in the pleural cavity. It can impair oxygenation/ventilation. There are two types of spontaneous pneumothorax
