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My vision has gone double!

A 63-year-old female with no known medical history presents to the ED complaining of persistent double vision for the last four days.
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Not Sweet Enough

A 63-year-old female with a background of type I diabetes mellitus, chronic pancreatitis and COPD presents to the ED with confusion and hypoglycaemia.
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Non-Blanching Rash with fever – no time to ponder!

A 12-year-old girl is brought by her parents with a 1-day history of fever and lethargy, associated with a rash that has rapidly developed over the last 3 hours.
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Sudden Visual Loss

A 73-year-old male presents to ED with sudden, painless vision loss in left eye.
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Anti-over-anticoagulation

Anuric with an INR of 15 and an AKI 3 on a background of bilateral renal artery stenosis with stenting and life-long warfarin.
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When your (kid’s) legs don’t work like they used to before

Sudden onset of refusal to walk and leg pain in a well young child.
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I’m Down and Out

A 54-year-old man presents with a sudden onset of double vision and a droopy eyelid.
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An Erythematous Eruption

A 4-year-old boy presents to the ED due to a 5 day history of general malaise, pyrexia, coughing and a rash.
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Eye-lid you not…eye cannot move

A 5-year-old girl presents to ED with a red swollen eye which she cannot open or move.
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Play with fire and you might get more than burned

An unconscious male presents to the ED after being pulled from a burning building.
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The heart of the matter

A 62-year-old woman presents with chest pain, fever, and systolic murmur.
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A Malevolent Mosquito

A recently returned traveller attends your ED with viraemic symptoms and pyrexia, what could the culprit be?
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A Real Crisis

A 20-year old female presents to the ED with reduced GCS and profuse vomiting following a night out.
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Just Muddled

A 67-year-old male is brought into the ED by his family who say he is “muddled”.
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Red Breasted

A new mother presents to the ED with breast pain and a fever.
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Punched my eye

A 23-year-old male presents to the ED on a Friday night with a punch injury to the face.
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Sleepy Daughter

A 21-year-old female presents to the ED with reduced level of consciousness. According to her family, she has been unwell for the last 3-days complaining mainly of headache. After having slept all day yesterday, her mother tried to wake her up this morning but she was unawakening from sleep.
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A Toxic Slip

A 65-year-old man with a neck of femur fracture becomes acutely unwell after a fascia iliaca block.
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Red Man

A 56-year-old gentleman presents with a 2/52 worsening psoriasis.
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Let me see your back!

A 72-year-old male presents to the ED with abdominal pain that has progressively worsened over the last 8 weeks.
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CDU: Safety or Saving?

A 79-year-old male was admitted to the Clinical Decisions Unit (CDU) following a fall. Was he kept safe?
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A Sinister Sheep Dip

A farmer is found collapsed near the sheep dip bath. What do you think could have happened?
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Delirious after Dialysis

Elderly male with chronic kidney disease presents to ED department with acute onset of confusion and twitching at the end of his dialysis.
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Heavy Breathing

A 30-year-old male presents with worsening shortness of breath.

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