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A young patient presents to the ED with a swollen finger, but things are not as straightforward as it seems.
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A 2-year-old female presents to your Emergency Department after biting into a liquid detergent capsule.
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A patient with recurrent back pain and sciatica presents with evolving neurological symptomsare all red flags being recognised?
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An 8-year-old boy with acute agitation and encephalopathy deteriorates rapidly after misattributed behavioral symptoms, revealing a time-critical metabolic emergency with devastating consequences.
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A 75-year-old patient presents with rapidly worsening lower limb pain, swelling, skin discolouration, bullae, crepitus, hyponatraemia and elevated lactate.
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A 20-year-old presents to the ED after taking about 20 tablets of an unknown medication.
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A 49-year-old female attends Resus with acute, global abdominal pain. She has recently been discharged from hospital following community acquired pneumonia and constipation.
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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.