72 year old gentleman with 3 weeks of intermittent abdominal pain originating from a bleeding umbilical hernia. His pain was now constant and 8/10 in severity.…
Induction Book 2: Palliative Care in the ED
A patient attends majors, with sepsis. You overhear someone saying theyre palliative care, so we dont need to do anything…
RCEM Blogs Book 1
Managing Parkinsons in the ED, Flaoting in the Face of Danger, MaxFax injuries in the E, and Paediatric Heart Murmurs & what to do with them…
Managing Parkinson’s in the ED
Your patient is a 70 year old lady with a history of type 2 diabetes and Parkinsons disease, for which she is on a number of medications…
Constipation
A topic to muddy the FOAMed waters; constipation, a problem for many patients in which their care could be dramatically improved. Find out how in this podcast…
Through the Wormhole
A 79-year-old man presents to the emergency department with persistent right inguinal pain and intermittent left flank pain over the past week…
A Mass not to Miss!!!
A 14 year old boy attends the ED with abdominal pain for three days, physical examination reveals a large, mobile abdominal mass in his lower abdomen, of 15 cm firm in consistency felt up to umbilical…
A Personal Problem – The Case of the Swollen Scrotum
A 45 year old man attends the Emergency Department with a presenting complaint of a “personal problem”…
Oops, What is Happening?
A 67-year old alcoholic presented with anuria for one day and the next is day passing fluid…