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Fractured Surgical Neck of Humerus

Published on Thu Jan 23, 2014

Question: A patient fell while intoxicated and was admitted because of a fractured humerus (surgical neck). The patient was having DT’s and was also diagnosed with acute respiratory failure and aspiration pneumonia. Additional diagnoses were malnutrition from alcohol and chronic obstructive asthma. He has a history of ischemic cardiomyopathy. What would be the principal and secondary diagnoses?

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