A 70-year-old male is brought to the ED by ambulance complaining of dizziness and generalised weakness following a fall.
A 45-year-old female with end-stage COPD presents with acute breathlessness and drowsiness. Despite optimized medical management and prior discussions on care preferences, she declines interventions and has died shortly after admission.
A 94-year-old female with dementia was referred to the ED from her residential home. She had a 2 day history of anorexia, lethargy and loose stools 3 times a day.
A 37-year old female woman presents with worsening shortness-of-breath and is noted to be severely hypertensive.
A young woman is seriously unwell. Her flatmates give you all the information you need. Now you must save her life. Period!
A 73-year-old female, who lives alone, is found collapsed at home by her neighbours and brought in the ED.
A 30-year-old, 50kg, factory worker presents to your ED following a chemical burn injury. While operating a machine at the Royal Mint an accident sprayed chemical over his face, neck and upper chest.
Two girls present to the Emergency Department on the same day with similar painful foot rashes, raising concerns about a common exposure.
Exposure to a viral illness in pregnancy. How worried should Mum be?
A 14-month-old boy presented to the Emergency Department following a choking episode the previous day at kindergarten. He had been eating a piece of diced apple at the time.
A hypotensive female in her 60s is pre-alerted to resus with severe abdominal pain radiating to both shoulders.
A 35-year-old male presents to the ED with a history of being punched on the face, with a nasal bone injury, bleeding and deformity. Discussion on evaluation, examination, imaging and specialist referral in the ED.
A 27-year-old female presents to the ED with one day history of sudden onset of moderate to severe intensity headache, vomiting, diplopia and abdominal discomfort.
A 57-year-old female with Chest pain, dyspnoea, abdominal Pain and syncopal episodes.
A 37-year-old man is brought into the emergency department following a road traffic collision.
A 31-year-old woman presents with a one-day history of sudden onset of the left shoulder pain and shortness of breath.
An elderly lady presents to the emergency department from a nursing home having been found on the floor in her room
A female in her 60s attends with tongue swelling.
You are asked to review a 3-year-old girl brought in crying inconsolably by her parents.
Sudden onset of neurological symptoms after exertion, accompanied by vacant episodes that were triggered by movement of the arm due to steno occlusive disease in the subclavian artery, proximal to the origin of the ipsilateral vertebral artery.
A woman is found unresponsive in a takeaway at midnight. She is hypotensive, drowsy and has low oxygen saturations. She is unable to give a history and there is nobody with her. Can you help her?
Hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar state is a medical emergency and is different from DKA and as such its treatment requires a different approach.
A man in his thirties presents to the ED after being instructed to do so by an optician, suspecting a stroke.
You are handed the ECG of a lady with known alcohol excess who has presented with at least 48 hours of vomiting. The ECG reveals one of her blood tests may be critical but which one?