Near Misses in Pulmonary and Cardiothoracic Critical Care

The Bank Robber with a Short Sprint but a Long Lace; The Wealthy Man with a Bloody Cough; Chest Pain in a College Party Animal; Loss of Vision in a Man Carrying Groceries on Ice; Respiratory Arrest in an Old Man with Bad Breath; The Long-Forgotten Car Ride in a Small Car with a Large Friend; A Marathon Runner with Shortness of Breath; The Cancer Patient with a Large Left-Sided Pleural Effusion and the Intensive Care Unit Resident with Stubby Fingers; A Kid with a Cough After a Christmas Party; I'm OK+, You are not OK; The Kind Resident and the Dyspneic Patient; A Tall Man with Thick Glasses and Chest Pain; An Elderly Lady with Urosepsis and an Intern's First Day in the Intensive Care Unit; A Nursing Student Giving her First Sponge Bath; A Young Head and Neck Resident and Her Clean White Coat; Crazy as a Loon and Peeing Like a Race Horse; The Snake Charmer with Shortness of Breath; The Revenge of the Barbecue Grill; Hemodynamic Collapse in a Smoker and the New Respiratory Therapist; New Murmur and Collapse in an Investment Banker Admitted to the Coronary Care Unit; The Canadian Corpse Who Wiggled Her Toes; Who Turned the Mediastinoscope Light Off?; The Man with a Slow Pulse and a Fast Cardiologist; The Heart Patient that Induced Chest Pain in His Physician; The College Freshman With Warm Hands but Cold Feet; The Opera Singer with a Hoarse Voice; A Third-Year Anesthesia Resident Armed with a Double-Lumen Tube; Gone Fishing; What Goes Down Often Comes Up; The Cocaine Abuser with Not Enough Blood and Too Much Phosphate