24-year-old male, drug user (marijuana) and hookah user, he comes to the emergency room with a chronic, productive cough, a viscous sputum, and a loss of approx. 15 lbs of weight. Then he started with dyspnea when walking, stabbing pain in right chest, night sweats. He denies quantified fever spikes. RT: 120-80Mmg, FC 80latxmts, FR: 16, SATO2 98%. Symmetric chest, Lungs: absence of vesicular murmur in the lower 2¨ thirds of the right hemithorax, and dullness in this area, no added noises or rales. a) Possible diagnoses b) What studies would you request from this patient. c) Treatments according to your diagnostic approaches.
24-year-old male, drug user (marijuana) and hookah user, he comes to the emergency room with a chronic, productive cough, a viscous sputum, and a loss of approx. 15 lbs of weight. Then he started with dyspnea when walking, stabbing pain in right chest, night sweats. He denies quantified fever spikes. RT: 120-80Mmg, FC 80latxmts, FR: 16, SATO2 98%. Symmetric chest, Lungs: absence of vesicular murmur in the lower 2¨ thirds of the right hemithorax, and dullness in this area, no added noises or rales. a) Possible diagnoses b) What studies would you request from this patient. c) Treatments according to your diagnostic approaches.
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24-year-old male, drug user (marijuana) and hookah user, he comes to the emergency room with a chronic, productive cough, a viscous sputum, and a loss of approx. 15 lbs of weight. Then he started with dyspnea when walking, stabbing pain in right chest, night sweats. He denies quantified fever spikes.
RT: 120-80Mmg, FC 80latxmts, FR: 16, SATO2 98%.
Symmetric chest, Lungs: absence of vesicular murmur in the lower 2¨ thirds of the right hemithorax, and dullness in this area, no added noises or rales.
a) Possible diagnoses
b) What studies would you request from this patient.
c) Treatments according to your diagnostic approaches.
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