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Conditions of the Skin/Soft Tissue in the ER

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A 29-year-old female was presented to the emergency department of a suburban general hospital at 11 p.m. with severe pain of her left thigh. The patient had a medical history of asthma since childhood, otherwise she was well. The day before, she had an argument with her live-in boyfriend that precipitated an attack of asthma, and she gave herself an epiPen (epinephrine) intramuscular injection in the left thigh without cleansing the skin beforehand. Apparently, the epiPen injector had been in her handbag for the past 2 years and the cap was off when it was used. The pain in her left thigh had been progressing over the previous 12 h, but there was no history of fever or chills.

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Fong, I.W. (2011). Conditions of the Skin/Soft Tissue in the ER. In: Medico-Legal Issues in Infectious Diseases. Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8053-3_3

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