22.03.2022
22.03.2022:
A woman contacted the emergency medical communication centre in the morning with chest pain and dyspnoea. Her condition rapidly deteriorated and became life-threatening in less than an hour. In an urgent situation with combined respiratory and circulatory failure, it is essential to take a broad approach and not to tie oneself to the initial differential diagnosis. The patient was a woman in her forties with known Crohn's disease, chronic pain and short bowel syndrome following repeated surgery for stenoses. Her remaining small bowel length was 170 cm, and she had also undergone resection of...