Fillers
A memorable patient
The inflating lady
BMJ 1998; 317 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.317.7167.1230 (Published 31 October 1998) Cite this as: BMJ 1998;317:1230- Solomon Almond, senior registrar in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
- Liverpool
Some four years ago, as a novice medical registrar, I was awoken at 3 00 am by a panic stricken senior house officer who told me that an elderly woman had been admitted to the accident and emergency department in anaphylactic shock, presumably from a dressing on a trivial back injury. The patient had had adrenaline, steroids, antihistamine, and nebulisers but remained ill. Of particular worry was her worsening facial and neck oedema, which I was told was endangering her airway. …
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