An 84-year-old presents with shortness of breath, chest pain, and appears peri-arrest.…
Revise your Resuscitation: The Drowning Child
You are working on a rapid response vehicle (RRV) as a part of a PHEM-rotation and attend a red call: 3-year-old cardiac arrest. Unsupervised child fallen into outdoor pond. Not breathing. Not respons…
A Spider Bite
An 18-year-old female presents to the ED of your local hospital during a night shift with a spider bite over the thigh. She is feverish and tachycardic.…
The Dancer Who Had to Learn to Walk Again
A 40-year-old female presents with bilateral lower limb weakness and sensory loss…
Blocked up!
A 66-year old male with abdominal pain, distension and vomiting attends the emergency department. His bowels were last opened 5 days ago. Can you figure out the cause?…
Can’t Keep It In
Mr Ship is a 94-year-old Gentleman who presents to the ED as his brother feels his indigestion is getting worse, and he can no longer eat and drink.…
My Hole Ankle Hurts!
A young male presents to the Emergency Department with Non Traumatic Limb Pain (NTLP) and a hole was found on his X-ray.…
The Apoplectic Abdomen
A 22-year-old man presented to the ED following a collapse with abdominal pain and no history of trauma. He was profoundly shocked and investigation revealed intra-abdominal haemorrhage.…
The Foxglove’s bite
An elderly gentleman presented with lethargy and poor oral intake. As routine tests begin they reveal he has more than just an AKI that needs treatment.…
Weak, Wobbly and not Walking
A 58-year-old man presents to the Emergency Department with progressive weakness and recurrent falls of unknown cause.…
It’s all in the bite
A 46-year-old female, seen with her daughter, presents to the Emergency Department with a tick embedded in right upper chest wall.…
A Whole Can of Worms
This patient presented with having one week of colicky abdominal pains and had passed this in his faeces earlier this evening.…
A not so happy ending
A 22-year-old healthy male attends ED with sudden onset of headache. He reports taking 100 mg Sildenafil before the headache started. On examination there is right arm weakness.…
In a bit of a jam
A 10-month-old is brought in to the emergency department with vomiting and irritability…
Non classic Chest Pain!
A 48-year-old man presents with fever, chest pain and fainting episodes. He is normally fit and well.…
Feeling Funny
A 35-year-old presents with paraesthesia and weakness in both lower limbs.…
Breath taken away while having a bun in the oven
A 21-year-old woman, 27-weeks pregnant, presents with a rare but important cause of chest pain during pregnancy.…
I can see Monkeys everywhere
A 16-year-old is brought in by ambulance to your resuscitation room with a reduced level of consciousness and then starts to see monkeys everywhere. Whats going on?…
Thrombotic but Thrombocytopenic
A pregnant lady presents to your department with confusion, diarrhoea, fever, and a purpuric rash.…
Setting Pulses Racing
Presentation to the ED with new onset heart palpitations…