Respiratory – FICMLearning

Case of the Month #11

Louise Hartley

A 40 year old male was admitted to intensive care unit requiring intubation and ventilation for community acquired pneumonia. He developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and on day 2 commenced an atracurium infusion for worsening hypoxaemia.

Despite two sessions of prone ventilation he failed to improve and required high ventilatory pressures. On day 5 he was placed on venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. (VV ECMO).

Case of the Month #7

Rathai Anandanadesan

A 74 year old female with a background of hypertension presented to the emergency department with gradually increasing breathlessness and pleuritic chest pain following a recent long haul flight.

Case of the Month #4

Pete Hersey

A 67 year old man has been admitted overnight to the intensive care unit. He presented with flu-like symptoms and a non-productive cough. His wife reported that he had been ‘seeing things’. Investigations revealed hypoxaemia, lobar consolidation, neutrophilia and a raised lactate dehydrogenase.

You suspect the patient may have Legionnaires’ disease.

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