A 34-year-old female presents to the emergency department with a 3-day history of left ear pain, without discharge or tinnitus.…
Picking your brain (or blood) cells …
A young male has concerning symptoms with a background history of G6PD deficiency…
Locked in Syndrome: A Narrow Escape
A 40-year-old female is brought in by ambulance having collapsed. She has vomited several times.…
Managing a serious incident
It is Monday morning 09.00hrs and you are checking your email inbox. You have received the following email from the StR who has just finished weekend nights.…
Atypical Chest Pain
A 19-year-old male presents to the emergency department with a 24 hour history of chest pain.…
Doc, my head hurts
A 42-year-old man presents to the ED with a severe headache. He is pacing up and down and says he has been woken up by a similar headache every night for the last 4 nights.…
Parasyncope
A 47-year-old nurse with a 2 week history of headaches and lethargy presents with a pre-syncopal episode at work.…
Disturbed or Psychiatric Patients in the ED
This module focuses on the assessment and initial management of psychiatric patients in the emergency department.…
More than just a DVT
A 38-year-old man reattends obtunded and narcosed after being treated for a DVT the day before.…
Emergency Casebook 3: Cauda Costs
This is the third in a series of Emergency Casebooks from the virtual hospital CFN General, with key learning points for staff working in an Emergency Department…
I’m Blinking Slowly with One Eye!
An 11-year-old boy is seen in the accident and emergency department by an SHO.…
A Genuine Case of ‘Off Legs’
A 30-year-old lady presents to the ED feeling “numb from the waist down”.…
Seizures in a child
The paramedics arrive with a 3-year-old boy who has had two seizures today. He has known developmental delay but has no history of seizures previously…
Doctor! Why Can’t I Walk?
A 65-year-old male presents to the emergency department by ambulance with an episode of collapse.…
Do unequal pupils always indicate significant pathology?
A 31-year-old female presents to the emergency department complaining of a dilated left pupil that has been noticed by a colleague at work.…
Papa Smurf has a Seizure
A 40-year-old man had a seizure witnessed by his wife; she reports that he was unresponsive and his limbs were shaking.…
Acute Behavioural Disturbance
This module identifies the clinical features of acute behavioural disturbance (ABD) and covers the initial assessment and management of patients with ABD in the Emergency Department.…
It’s all in her head
A 10-year-old girl presents with lethargy, vomiting, headaches and an unsteady gait. She collapsed at home a few hours prior to arrival at your ED.…
Cervical Artery Dissection
This session reviews the clinical presentation and investigation of cervical artery dissection.…
Cervical Artery Dissection
This session reviews the clinical presentation and investigation of cervical artery dissection.…