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A 77-year-old diabetic man presents with chest pain followed by presyncope. He is hypotensive with pulse deficits and hemopericardium. CT confirms DeBakey type I aortic dissection requiring urgent surgery.
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Elderly woman with sudden hip pain and inability to weight-bear. Negative CT, but MRI reveals occult sub-capital fracture. Diagnostic uncertainty in the ED.
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Persistent acidosis after DKA resolution should prompt evaluation for additional causes, including renal tubular acidosis.
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A 41-year-old woman presents with a six-month history of intermittent palpitations and a recent brief collapse, prompting urgent evaluation for a potential underlying cardiac arrhythmia or conduction abnormality.
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A 33-year-old male with haemochromatosis and mental health history presents with recurrent dizziness and chest tightness. Despite extensive normal investigations, symptoms persist, raising the challenge of diagnosis.
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An elderly female patient presents to the ED with abdominal pain, constipation, and vomiting, with a picture of large bowel obstruction with unusual aetiology.
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An anxious 45-year-old male presents to your Emergency Department with acute neck swelling.
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A 32-year-old female presents with back pain and shortness of breath indicating possible pulmonary embolism who gets sent home despite positive D-Dimer.
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A 9-year old boy with known sickle cell disease who suddenly cannot move his right arm and leg.
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A RTC patient sustains a right leg fracture and develops a stroke while applying a plaster requiring thrombectomy and hemicraniectomy.
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A young man presents to the ED with lower abdominal pain and inability to void after a minor fall.
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Life-threatening asthma and a difficult airway in a previously well patient.
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A 45-year-old gentleman with a history of uncontrolled Diabetes and Hypertension comes into the ED with pain and numbness of his left thigh.
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A 52-year-old man presents with atypical chest pain. Can you spot the clues to a life-threatening diagnosis?
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A young lady presents to the ED with a history of pain on urination and defecation for two months.
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A 91-year-old man presents with persistent groin and hip pain that doesnt fit a typical musculoskeletal pattern. Bedside imaging reveals an unexpected and potentially life-threatening diagnosis.
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An elderly man presents to the ED with dizziness associated with movement of his left arm.
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A fit, healthy 31-year-old male presents to the Emergency Department with an acutely swollen, painless upper limb.
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A 51-year-old female presents with sudden onset epigastric pain and FAST +ve symptoms.
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A 56-year-old male with stuffy nose and fall 6 days ago. Clinically infected septal hematoma - Swelling in both nostrils; high CRP, nasal deformity.
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A 78-year-old man on clopidogrel presents after a fall with rib fractures, pulmonary contusion and haemothorax; ED erector spinae plane block has provided effective analgesia and improved oxygenation.
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A 44-year-old male collapses and is subsequently brought into Resus. He presents with sudden-onset chest tightness and sweating, preceded by progressive shortness of breath over the past 24 hours.
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A 33-year-old female presents to the Emergency Department with atraumatic hip pain.
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A 50-year-old man presents with severe chest pain and vomiting after eating pork meat; diagnosed with spontaneous oesophageal rupture.