Solve exciting clinical cases specific to your field of interest via Docplexus’ clinical case challenge. In this ‘Gastroenterology Case Challenge’, join your fellow doctors to discuss and answer today’s question regarding ‘Spontaneous Breathing In A Chronic Alcoholic Patient’. A 38-year-old man with a long history of alcohol abuse presents to the emergency department due to persistent vomiting. The patient was found by paramedics vomiting next to an empty bottle of vodka.
The patient has an active prescription for doxycycline to treat Lyme disease. After a prolonged episode of retching the patient suddenly clutches at his chest and starts to breathe rapidly with episodes of coughing. Source: Medscape
