Subarachnoid hemorrhage in a 13-year-old girl.
At 5:20 pm, a local flight team was activated to respond for an interfacility transfer of a 13-year-old girl with a subarachnoid hemorrhage. In the history obtained, the patient's parents noted that she had not been feeling well for the past several days. She had been complaining of intermittent dizziness and a persistent headache. Until the onset of these prodromal events, she had been active with no medical history. That afternoon, the child was playing with her friends at the school playground. As the group was walking home, they noticed that the patient was not with them. They subsequently returned and found her lying face-down in the bushes, unresponsive, with agonal respirations.
Tilney
Peter
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Department of Emergency Medicine, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, USA. tilneyp@mail.amc.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D017732:Air Ambulances / Q000592:standards; D000792:Angiography; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013129:Spinal Puncture; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods