Syncope two years after hysterectomy.

A 61-year-old woman presented to the emergency department after experiencing palpitations, shortness of breath, and syncope while taking a shower. Her husband revived her with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. She had had a similar episode three days earlier while making her bed and had lost consciousness for about 10 sec.

Aftereffects of a tainted meal.

A 58-year-old man presented with profuse diarrhea, abdominal distention, flatulence, weakness, and a 15-lb weight loss. The initial symptoms of nausea and vomiting had begun a week earlier, within hours of eating chicken that had not been well wrapped when purchased. Two days after symptom onset, he received intravenous rehydration therapy at another hospital.