Case

After 8 hours of board review on minimal sleep, I figured I would post a case that was given to us by one of the lecturing doctors. It made me smile: A 2 year old girl following a fall acutely made a brief shrill cry, became apneic, developed generalized cyanosis and loss of consciousness and generalized clonic jerks, opisthotonius, and bradycardia. EEG is normal. A similar incident happened when the infant was upset over a toy being taken away last week. Diagnosis: TEMPER TANTRUM that is quite a tantrum!