A 19-year-old man presents to emergency department with paranoid delusions.…
Weakness not due to stroke
An 84-year-old woman presents to emergency department with new confusion and weakness.…
Bubbles on the Brain
A 34-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of left ear pain, without discharge or tinnitus.…
Assessment of Dementia in the ED
Dementia is a common disease within the elderly population. The care of these patients poses challenges for clinicians and carers alike.…
Assessment of Dementia in the ED
Dementia is a common disease within the elderly population. The care of these patients poses challenges for clinicians and carers alike…
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.…
When thunder roars, go indoors!
Learning about lightning injuries…
Lightning Learning
During Summer storms, lightning strikes can cause fatalities …but what happens to the survivors?…
The Dying Swan
A 30-year-old female attended the Emergency Department after vomiting, feeling weak and ‘not quite with it’.…
Making Sepsis Sixy
Everyone’s talking about sepsis lately, but do you know what to do?…
What a headache?!
A 38-year-old fit and well female who is 29 weeks pregnant attends with a sudden onset of worsening, retro-orbital headache…
I’m sweet enough!
A 76 year old diabetic is referred with confusion and is being treated for a UTI. She is tachycardic and drowsy, is there more than sepsis?…
PEG Fracture
An 85 year old lady is brought in by ambulance after an unwitnessed fall in a care home complaining of right wrist pain. She has obvious facial bruising.…
An Unexpected Twist
A 67-year-old lady presents to the Emergency Department with mild wheeze, frontal headache, fever and vomiting. She is hypotensive and tachycardic. You arrange to see her in Resus.…
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.…
Salicylic Stress
Paul, a 52 year old electrician, has been in your department for three and a half hours with a presenting complaint of abdominal pain…
Delirium; a source of confusion in the ED
An 84-year-old lady attends the ED unaccompanied in the middle of the night. She is very confused, agitated and becomes aggressive towards the staff…
A Toxic Slip
A 65-year-old man with a background of osteoarthritis presents to the Emergency Department with left hip pain following a fall…
A Real Crisis
You see a 20-year-old student in resus with vomiting. She is drowsy and incoherent so you are unable to get much information…
A Hypertensive Emergency
A 56-year-old man presents to the Emergency Department with chest pain. It was fairly abrupt in onset whilst he was digging in the garden and was associated with a brief episode of collapse…