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  • Clinical Case

Sore Foot After Footie

A man in his 20s attends the ED after injuring his foot while playing football.
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Headache with Stealthy Hypertension

A 45-year-old male with a history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome presents to the ED with paroxysmal headaches and elevated blood pressure.
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Abnormal Nose Bleed

A 25-year-old male patient presents to the emergency department with a history of nosebleeds when he presses his forehead.
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It’s a AAA, isn’t it? You’ve got some ex-pleening to do

A 76-year-old presents with abdominal pain. He is clinically shocked (hypotensive and tachycardic) with a known abdominal aortic aneurysm.
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Seat Belt Syndrome

Abdominal wall bruising in a 9-year-old girl following a car vs car road traffic accident.
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Polka Dots on a Tiny Tot

A 15-month-old presents to your ED with a rash and swelling on both legs and feet. The patient has a mild fever but is otherwise well.
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Another angry drunk

It’s Friday night, a 19-year-old male who alleges he’s been assaulted is shouting / being aggressive in the waiting area. The triage nurse asks you to discharge him.
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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.
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Traumatic Hip Dislocation in a Young Woman – a complication

An 18-year-old female is brought into the ED following a head-on collision with another car with a combined speed of approximately 100mph.
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Atraumatic Thigh Pain

A 60-year-old female patient presents to the ED with gradual-onset right-sided thigh and hip pain.
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Gastric Volvulus in an Elderly Patient

A frail elderly female is brought to the emergency department following two episodes of “coffee-ground vomit”.
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Blinding Headache

A 35-year-old presents with right sided headache, photophobia and vomiting progressing to left homonymous hemianopia and left sided numbness.
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Coprophagy in Humans

A 45-year-old man develops methemoglobinemia after an incidence of eating his own faeces.
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Acute Headache and Visual Disturbance

A 45-year-old woman presents with 24 hour history of right sided frontal headache with progressive worsening of vision.
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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 isn’t passing urine.
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What’s wrong with my baby?

A 3-day-old baby girl is brought to the emergency department by her distressed mother with complaints about the baby's shivering and lethargy.
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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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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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Shoulder Dislocation

A 51-year old man presents at 3am to the Emergency Department with severe pain in his left arm.
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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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Can’t Bear To Weightbear

A 79-year-old woman presents with non-traumatic hip pain and fever.

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