With potential to wreak systemic havoc for years following initial infection, Group A beta-haemolytic Streptococcus pyogenes (or, far more conveniently, ‘GAS’) are organisms truly worthy of our inner …
Toxic Torticollis
A four year-old girl presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with a four-day history of fever and sore throat…
A Spotty Boy
A new rash in a 5-year-old boy.…
It’s all in the kiss
Is love in the air? …or is it the kissing disease?
It was only a kiss, how did it end up like this? A teenage boy got more than he was bargaining for after an innocent kiss with his girlfriend but do …
Holiday Sore Throat: are Antibiotics required?
You take a history from a 16 year old American boy and his parents who are on holiday in the UK for the next 2 weeks. He is complaining of a severe sore throat of 5 days duration…
Tired purple legs
A 7-year-old girl presents with an acute, painful hot knee and a red-purple non-blanching rash.…
Acute Sore Throat
This session covers the assessment, investigation and management of the patient who presents to the emergency department with a sore throat. It also covers the more serious conditions that can present…
Acute Sore Throat
Sore throat accounted for 1.9% of all visits to emergency departments in the USA in 2006…
