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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, what’s the differential?
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I’m a little sore but I’m fine

A 35-year-old woman is brought to the ED after being involved in a road traffic collision.
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Cardioversion Conundrum

A 48-year-old gentleman presents at 3am to the ED having woken at 2am with palpitations.
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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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Back Pain with a Normal MRI: What’s Next?

A 57-year-old male patient presents with acute back pain and numbness in both legs.
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Persistent Epistaxis

A 56-year-old woman is brought to the ED by her husband as she has been unable to stop a nosebleed.
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Neonatal Conjunctivitis

A 10-day-old male infant presents with redness and discharge from both eyes.
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Golden Advice

An 11-year-old boy has reattended for the 3rd time with blistering skin lesions.
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Shock in the First Trimester

A pregnant patient presents with signs of shock
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The Dying Swan

A 30-year-old female attended the Emergency Department after vomiting, feeling weak and ‘not quite with it’.
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Headache and Visual Disturbance

A 70-year-old female presents to the ED with headache, jaw pain and visual disturbance.
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A Rare and Serious Adverse Event Related to Codeine

An 80-year-old woman presented to the ED at 2am with acute chest pain and shortness of breath.
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Between you, me and the IUD

A 46-year-old female presents with a three-month history of progressively worsening vaginal bleeding.
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An Unusual Case of Bradycardia

A 69-year-old man presents to the ED with a heart rate of 28bpm. He is hypotensive and clammy.
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Keeled Over Kid

A young girl collapses suddenly at school and presents to your ED with an altered level of consciousness – what could have happened?
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Chest Pain with an Unusual ECG

A 40-year-old man is brought in by ambulance at 2am. He looks visibly anxious and is clutching his chest. The paramedics think it’s ACS.
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Acidosis in the Elderly

An elderly lady presenting with vague symptoms is found to have a deranged blood gas.
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Acutely Breathless after Treatment of a Pneumothorax

A female with a spontaneous pneumothorax suddenly becomes breathless and hypotensive after insertion of a chest drain.
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Transient Chest Pain

A 50-year-old male attends with chest pain that has now resolved. He wants to know if he can go home.
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A Sceptical Septic Psoas

A large fluid filled mass
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Double Vision

A 55-year-old female presents to the ED with worsening diplopia for 2 days.
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Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot

A previously healthy patient presents with a rapid onset illness, with fever, rash and tachycardia - what could be the culprit?
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Caution – Mind your Vomiting!

A Middle-aged man presents to the ED with Epigastric discomfort associated with multiple episodes of vomiting.
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Highway to Heel

A 20-year-old man is brought in by ambulance following a motorcycle accident.

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