TY - JOUR T1 - A case of acute breathlessness in a swimmer JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 429 LP - 429 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2012-202069 VL - 30 IS - 5 AU - Victoria Jane North AU - Helen Mansfield Y1 - 2013/05/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/30/5/429.abstract N2 - A previously fit and well 26-year-old female subject presented to emergency medicine with acute shortness of breath, the day after attempting to swim the English Channel. The breathlessness, which was worse lying flat, had come on 4 h after finishing the swim, and was associated with a cough productive of pink sputum.She had … ER -