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Cross-cover: a post-op medicine boarder spikes a fever, and her pressure follows.

66-year-old womanWard 7, bed 12 (cross-cover)Fictitious educational patient
Day 3 after ureteric stone admissionType 2 diabetes

Day 3 · 03:04

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"Bed 12 febrile 38.9, BP 92/58, asking for Tylenol. Not your patient, you're covering. Want anything?"

You are at another bedside and cannot leave for five minutes. What do you ask the nurse for first?

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