Avoid diagnostic momentum

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Your patient has been treated recently at the hospital for pneumonia. You are called to his home for dyspnea. Your interview reveals that the patient has had an increasing fever for two days. Which is your BEST choice of action? Treat the patient for the possibility of having pneumonia and complete a physical exam with the proper BSI in place. Include the comments regarding pneumonia on your run report but allow the ALS provider the chance to obtain HPI without interfering with unnecessary information. Ask the patient to tell subsequent responders of the pneumonia history but avoid diagnostic momentum problems by not including a differential diagnosis in your report. Ignore the history and treat the findings in order to avoid diagnostic momentum that points to the wrong cause.

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