A 34-year-old healthy woman develops sudden severe abdominal…
A 34-year-old healthy woman develops sudden severe abdominal pain. On physical examination she is afebrile. The pain is centered in the mid-epigastric region with radiation to her back. Bowel sounds are absent. No masses are palpable. Which laboratory results are likely to found in this patient?
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Following a vehicular accident with blood loss leading to prolonged, severe hypotension, a 30-year-old man is intubated and placed on a mechanical ventilator. He has progressively decreasing oxygen saturations despite increasing his FI02 to 100%. He remains afebrile. He dies 3 days later. At autopsy, the distal lungs show thickened interstitium, and many macrophages and neutrophils. Which of the following would have been observed on X-ray just prior to his death?
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You are working in the emergency room when the paramedics bring in a 12 year- old girl who has been febrile and disoriented for the past couple of days. Labs are drawn and reveal the following: ABG: pH 7.2 PCO2= 29 PO2 78 Chemistry panel: Na+ = 140 Cl- = 100 HCO3- =20 Glucose = 350 What is her likely pH status?
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