A young man presents with fever, headache, photophobia and vomiting. Can you interpret the findings to diagnose and treat him appropriately before it’s too late?
A young man presents with fever, headache, photophobia and vomiting. Can you interpret the findings to diagnose and treat him appropriately before it’s too late?
Tuberculosis can feel like a disease from a different era. The truth is, it is still very much with us and in a busy urban ED you will see it. The real question is whether you think of it before the patient leaves the department, or three months later when they’re back worse.
During a police arrest, a known Hepatitis B positive patient becomes aggressive, spitting directly at an officer. The immediate exposure necessitates urgent post-exposure investigations and treatment for the officer.
Cloudy Hypoxia after foreign travel; a flashback of a pandemic or a rare home-grown complication of a childhood illness in an adult.
This module is a summary on notifiable diseases aiming to put the notification process in context of the wider public health implications.
This session is a summary on notifiable diseases aiming to put the notification process in context of the wider public health implications.
A 25-year-old male presents to the ED with fever, headache, fatigue and arthralgia.
A male patient presents with muscle spasms and rigidity.
Refresh your knowledge on this latest outbreak.
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
34-year-old male with malaise, myalgia, bilateral neck swelling and a headache
You are about to see two patients both of whom have testicular pain
The child with decreased consciousness is a common problem with many possible diagnoses and potentially high mortality and morbidity.
Many of us in the UK EM will have gone most of our careers without seeing any confirmed cases of measles. Vaccination rates have been dropping though, so measles is back in our departments and has to be in our differential diagnosis list.
A 28-year-old man recently returned from abroad. He is feverish with sore eyes and a rash.
Your department is crowded with multiple ambulances arriving, very few empty clinical spaces and multiple boarded patients due to exit block.
This session outlines a standardised approach to providing care for a haemodynamically normal patient presenting following rape or sexual assault.
A 38-year-old male presents with a continuous cough, shortness of breath and fevers. Over the past 2 days he has had intense generalised muscle aches, fatigue, loss of taste and smell and a reduced appetite.
CNS infections are relatively rare, but form a very important differential diagnosis in the unwell patient presenting to the ED.
Intracranial infections (also called central nervous system infections or CNS infections) are relatively rare, but form a very important differential diagnosis in the unwell patient