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It’s gone viral!

A 28-year-old man recently returned from abroad. He is feverish with sore eyes and a rash.
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“I can’t speak”

A 70-year-old gentleman presents to the ED with pain in left lower jaw, worsening over the last 3 days.
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A shoulder to cry on

A young lady presents with shoulder pain, for which there are multiple differential diagnoses. How do you differentiate between them in order to manage her effectively?
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Why so silent?

Elderly lady presenting with abdominal pain and fleeting left upper limb weakness.
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Let’s Twist Again

A 29-year-old male attends with left knee pain having been hit by a slow-moving car 2 days earlier.
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A Constant Cough

A 9-week-old female infant presents to Paediatric A&E at 2200 hrs with a history of coughing, difficulty in breathing, lethargy and reduced feeding.
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Doc, I’m about to croak out!

A patient presents with suspected aspiration but turns out to have something even more concerning.
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An Unexpected Twist

A 67-year-old lady presents to the ED with mild wheeze, frontal headache, fever and vomiting. She is hypotensive and tachycardic. You arrange to see her in Resus.
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Vision Not Quite Right!

A 15-year-old male presents to the ED complaining of blurred vision in the right eye, floaters, and mild headache.
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Maternal sepsis: be aware and beware!

A 40-year-old female presents to the Emergency Department feeling lethargic for 24 hours.
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Are you sure NEURO-kay?

A 3-year-old boy presents with a 6-day history of vomiting and “stillness”.
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Connect the Dots

A 77-year-old gentleman presents to the ED five days after his endoscopic endonasal transsphenoid resection of his pituitary adenoma with a severe frontal headache, fever and multiple episodes of vomiting.
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Eye-dentify the Eponymous Signs

A 43-year-old female presents with blurred vision following a fall.
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I can’t stand being dizzy

A 71-year-old female with recurrent dizzy episodes over the past 2 years.
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My Eye Feels Inflamed!

A 36-year-old male presents to the ED with left eye pain and ‘redness’ for one day, especially uncomfortable in bright light. He also reports blurred vision and floaters.
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Heart Beats Fast

A patient books in stating that his “heart is beating fast”. Your receptionist thinks he ‘doesn’t look right’ and brings him through to you in the main department.
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A Noteworthy Nappy Change

A 5-month-old boy is brought to the Children’s Emergency Department with a red, swollen scrotum.
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More than a pea-sized problem

A man with weight loss, abdominal pain and fevers attends your ED. He has HIV and is on antiretroviral therapy.
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Help! My baby’s eyes are full of pus!

A 5-week-old baby presents with persistent watery pus-like discharge from both eyes.
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The Silent Filler

An elderly gentleman presents to the ED with increasing frequency of nocturnal enuresis.
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To P or not to P, that is the question

What do you do if you don’t see P waves on an ECG?
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Eye want to go home

A 2-year-old female presents to your Emergency Department after biting into a liquid detergent capsule
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Eyes and Shine

A 27-year-old male presents with sudden onset of L-eye redness.
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Doc, I can’t breathe!

A 25-year-old obese female, who is 1-week post-partum, presents with worsening shortness of breath on minimal exertion, orthopnoea, pedal oedema and a dry cough.

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