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Ohio University Main Campus Clinical Diagnosis Scenarios Questions

 

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1. A stab wound to the chest in a 25-year-old woman results in an injury to the thoracic duct. A chest radiograph reveals fluid filling the left pleural cavity:

2. A 19-year-old man with infectious endocarditis has an echocardiogram that reveals a 2 cm mitral valvular vegetation. He has left upper quadrant abdominal pain. An abdominal CT scan shows a lesion in the spleen consistent with embolization:

3. A 5-year-old child has a blockage of the aqueduct of Sylvius in the midbrain:

4. A 49-year-old man hospitalized with pneumonia develops a bronchopleural fistula, and there is a fluid collection in the left chest cavity by chest radiograph:

5. A 69-year-old woman who has been bedridden for weeks and develops a blood clot in the right iliac vein. She then ambulates to the bathroom. Upon returning to her bed, she experiences sudden, severe dyspnea:

6. . A 19-year-old man with infectious endocarditis has an echocardiogram that reveals a 2 cm mitral valvular vegetation. He has left upper quadrant abdominal pain. An abdominal CT scan shows a lesion in the spleen consistent with embolization:

7. A 5-year-old child has a blockage of the aqueduct of Sylvius in the midbrain:

8. A 49-year-old man hospitalized with pneumonia develops a bronchopleural fistula, and there is a fluid collection in the left chest cavity by chest radiograph:

9. A 69-year-old woman who has been bedridden for weeks and develops a blood clot in the right iliac vein. She then ambulates to the bathroom. Upon returning to her bed, she experiences sudden, severe dyspnea:

10. 10.  How is the oxygen content monitored in blood?