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Flank Pain!

A 30-year-old male patient is brought to the emergency department (ED) by ambulance with a sudden onset of severe right flank pain over the previous 6 hours.
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Brain dead?

A 51-year-old who presents profoundly unconscious.
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A Rapid Decline in Respiratory Function

A 62-year-old lady presents with a 10-hour history of increasing shortness of breath and sharp, right-sided chest pain.
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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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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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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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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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Headache and Vomiting

A 16-year-old patient with headache and vomiting with a past medical history of dysmenorrhoea.
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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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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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A Vesicular Rash in a Toddler

A 3-year-old boy presents to the Children's Emergency Department with a painful rash.
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Burning Up

An 89-year-old female presents with an unrecordable temperature.
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Sore Foot After Footie

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

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