Best case ever.

Best case ever.

Yes, this is E.N.K.'s best case ever mini podcast series, and I'm your host, Dr. Anton Helman. We're at the teaching course here in New York City.

And it's my pleasure and honor to have Dr. Salim Razai, the brains behind Rebel EM, the podcast and the blog.

And now I can proudly say one of my good buddies and co-foam producers.

Saleem, welcome to EM cases.

Anton, thank you for having me on.

This is long overdue.

And that's one of the beauties of foam, isn't it, that we really become good friends. It's not just producing good content, but we

know about each other, about our families and what's going on in our lives. And you're absolutely

right when you say, it can proudly say. And it's been a pleasure to meet you awesome so we're here to medicate so

selim let's hear your best case ever yeah so i was working a shift and had a patient come down to the

er 38 year old male so he really didn't have any medical problems and was kind of going about his ordinary

business and had been doing well. Actually, had gone to the gym and exercise, doing fine, just his

normal everyday routine. And all of a sudden, he was walking down some stairs and got this sudden

onset chest pain. And he described the pain as sharp like a knife

stabbed him in the right side of his chest. He said he suddenly couldn't breathe, he couldn't catch

his breath. He just felt fatigued, diaphragmatic, just didn't feel right. Actually took him about

30 minutes to make it down the rest of the flight of stairs

to make it somewhere where he could safely get to the emergency department.

What were you thinking at that time about what the diagnosis was?

Well, with the long travel, flights to the United States, probably about a 13-hour flight, stagnant. He said he

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