A 24-year-old male, admitted after a road traffic accident with a closed femur fracture, develops sudden breathlessness, confusion, and a petechial rash over the chest and conjunctiva 36 hours after injury. On examination, he is tachypneic and hypoxic. Chest X-ray shows bilateral diffuse infiltrates.
Diagnosis??
Fat embolism syndrome
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Fat embolism syndrome
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