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Have you ever seen this?

A 68-year-old man presents to ED following a fall. He says he has felt lethargic and feverish for 2 days.
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Unravelling the Mysterious Weakness

A 51-year-old man presents with acute onset of central chest pain accompanied by nausea, vomiting and paralysis of all four limbs.
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Pneumocephalus

An 18-year-old female presents after falling 8ft from a tree. She landed directly onto her head and lost consciousness for 30 seconds.
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Aggression in Patient with Learning Disability

A patient with moderate learning disability is brought in by their father because he has suddenly become aggressive.
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Egg Head

A 9-year-old girl presents to the ED with a persistent egg shaped swelling on her forehead following a seemingly minor head injury two weeks ago.
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Liver Abscess Exists

A 34-year-old man, with history of recent foreign travel, presents to the ED with fever, jaundice and right upper quadrant pain. Physical exam shows right upper quadrant tenderness.
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Heimlich Gone Wrong

A 78-year-old woman presents with dysphagia and severe chest pain after choking on a chicken bone.
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Eye’ve got a terrible headache

A 72-year-old male presents with distressing peri-orbital pain after pupil dilation.
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Tied up in a knot with a twist at the end!

A 47-year-old lady presents with acute epigastric pain radiating to the back.
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Tiny Tot’s Ticker Flicker

A 5-week term baby is brought in by his parents with a 24-hour history of poor feeding. No fever or infective features.
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Rare but Toxic

Accidental iron overdose in a young child.
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Chest Pain in a 12-year-old

A 12-year-old boy presents to your local ED complaining of a 2-day history of chest pain.
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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.
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Not Another Hyperemesis

This case discusses a young woman who presents to the ED at 11/40 gestation with intractable vomiting and altered mental status for three days.
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Slow to warm up

You receive a standby call – female found at the bottom of a mountain, her temperature is unrecordable… What would you do?
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Red Forearms and Green Fingers

A 46-year-old man attends the ED with an itchy rash on both his forearms. It started yesterday evening, and has worsened today.
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Headache and Vomiting

A 16-year-old patient with headache and vomiting with a past medical history of dysmenorrhoea.
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The Limping Child

A 7-year-old girl presents to the Paediatric A&E with a 3 week history of increasing pain in her right hip.
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Spill the Tea

A 32-year-old man presents to the ED with RUQ, tachycardia and diarrhoea after starting a new herbal supplement for weight loss.
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Drunk and Fell (… off a roof)

An 18-year-old male self-presents to the ED 36 hours after falling from a rooftop while intoxicated.
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A stag do abroad

34-year-old male with malaise, myalgia, bilateral neck swelling and a headache
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To drain or not to drain?

A 67-year-old man presents with shortness of breath and fever. He has recently completed his first 2 week chemotherapy course for auricular Squamous Cell Carcinoma, administered via a PICC line.
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Eye’m worried about my red eye!

A 28-year-old male presents with an acutely red eye and reduced visual acuity.
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Henna – Temporary Tattoo Trouble

A 17-year-old woman presents to ED with intense pain a week after having a henna tattoo.

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