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Large, painful hematoma on one of my hospice patients. At first nursing home staff reported that it happened while repositioning her, quickly grew into this. Pt became febrile and non responsive/imminent, pt has since passed. Noted moaning and restlessness when touched requiring large doses of subcutaneous Morphine and Lorazepam.

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A 4-month-old male infant presented with skin lesions localized to the chin for the past 3 days. Physical examination revealed multiple small pustules with surrounding inflammatory signs on the chin, along with a few scattered papules on the chest.

patient in late teens presenting after a collapse, no chest pain, no previous cardiac history, no history of sudden death in family, are there any features in this ekg that would warrant further work-up or is this just a pediatric ekg?