Oh dear – you are quite blue

Your pre-alert phone rings to warn you that a 30-year-old male will be arriving in five minutes, having been found collapsed with blue lips and recordable oxygen saturations.…

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Wee Considerations

An elderly man comes in acutely unwell. He’s pyrexial, tachycardic, and isnt passing urine.…

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Curtain Call

A 70-year-old female presents with flashes, floaters, and a loss of vision in her right eye.…

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Torticollis

A 4-year-old girl presents to the Emergency Department with a four-day history of fever and sore throat.…

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An Unusual Eversion Injury

A man in his 40s arrives in the Emergency Department with a deformed foot and ankle after falling off a motorised skateboard.…

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Eye am under pressure

A 60-year-old woman presents with eye pain and visual disturbance. She vomits just as you call her in for assessment.…

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Send HELLP!

A 38-year-old female patient presents three days post-partum with vomiting and epigastric pain.…

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Clouded Sight

A 34-year-old woman presents with a worsening vision and pain on eye movement.…

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NAI or not

A 5-year-old boy presents with a central boggy swelling to his forehead without history of trauma, whats the differential?…

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Pause for Thought

You take handover for a patient in resus. They have presented with new onset of focal seizures. You start treatment but the convulsions are worsening. What will you do?…

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