A 16-Year-Old Girl with Acute Onset Respiratory Distress
Journal Title: Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
A 16-year-old girl with an intellectual disability (known case of Down syndrome) arrived in the emer-gency department with complaints of severe breath-lessness, bloody salivation (bright red blood or clots), and difficulty in speaking and swallowing of liquids and solids. The patient gradually developed progressive bloody salivation and hoarseness, never had any history of trauma to the head and neck and respiratory problems, and was symptomatic from the previous 48 h.
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