Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE CASE REPORTS, cilt.1, sa.2, ss.14-16, 2010 (ESCI)
Introduction: Pulmonary embolism is a life-threatening condition and its diagnosis is generally based on clinical suspicion. Case report: A 34-years-old male had been admitted to another hospital with acute dyspnea and syncope. After initial evaluation he had immediately been undergone an operation due to epidural hematoma and occipital fracture. ECG, Echocardiogram and Thorax CT findings complied with pulmonary embolism. Thrombolytic or anticoagulant medication could not be started because of epidural hematoma operation. At postoperative 72 hours low molecular weight heparin and at 96 hours warfarin was administered. He discharged from hospital at day 15. Conclusions: The emergency room physician who race with time in patient management, has to keep in mind that physician could experience more than one life-threatening pathology in the same patient.