About this episode

This episode explores the health risks associated with fire eating, hot tubs, and gasoline theft.

Fire eaters who damage their lungs without being burned. Hot-tub users who develop a serious respiratory illness. And gasoline thieves poisoned by the way they steal it. Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision. An interactive pulmonary and emergency medicine case involving hydrocarbon aspiration, chemical pneumonitis, cough, low oxygen, secondary infection, and treatment that may not involve antibiotics. Send us Fan Mail

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