Case Solutions
We list the connections that can be made for each case in Night Shift 2024, along with the diagnoses. Please proceed ONLY if you do not mind game spoilers.
Pierre – Brucellosis
Fever + Accent
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Ask about recent travel
Fever + Night sweats
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Ask about weight loss, cough, or HIV
Wife is not happy + Night sweats
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Ask Pierre about body odor
Fever + Stiff neck
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LP to rule out meningitis
Benjamin – severe injury
Fall from bicycle + Tenderness to neck with palpation
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Ask about other symptoms
Steven – severe injury
S/P GSW + Dropped off by a friend
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Ask Ian if this happens often here
Alex – severe injury
Degloving injury of L upper arm + Cannot feel L hand
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Ask if he can feel his fingers
High speed rollover MVC + Hypotensive and tachycardic
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Ask Ian about the incident
Darrell – severe injury
Wife worries about him + Fall on cliffs
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Ask why his wife worries about him
Mary – Lemierre's disease
Hypotensive; tachycardic + PCP labwork: UA and CXR normal
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Ask Mary about sepsis
PCP labwork: thrombocytopenia + PCP labwork: elevated creatinine
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Ask about neuro complaints
Anterior cervical lymph nodes swollen + C/O sore throat, dizziness, headache, neck stiffness
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Find the source of the infection
Prior history of pharyngitis + Hypotensive and tachycardic
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Find the source of the infection
Jonathan – severe injury
Believes in personal accountability + S/P fall
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Ask if he was doing something risky
Dorothy – Takotsubo's cardiomyopathy
No CAD risk factors + Non-radiating chest pressure and light-headedness
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Ask what triggered the event
Helen – severe injury
Dizziness on standing + S/P fall
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Ask if this has happened before
Linda – severe injury
Fell asleep at the wheel + MVC
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Ask about recent fatigue
Clarissa – Niacin deficiency
Paresthesias in legs; worsening over several months + Agitation
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Ask about mood swings
Chronically ill/cachetic appearing + Scar over left upper quadrant of abdomen
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Inquire about possible PEG
Kevin – Measles
20 yo male + Rash: morbiliform; face, neck, trunk, palms/soles
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Ask about vaccination history
C/O headache; no photophobia + C/O fever; myalgias; diarrhea, URI sx
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Check for meningitis
C/O fever; myalgias; diarrhea, URI sx + Rash: morbiliform; face, neck, trunk, palms/soles
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Ask about recent travel
Does not think he was vaccinated + Rash: morbiliform; face, neck, trunk, palms/soles
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Ask if he noticed any symptoms prior to the rash