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?
Following a recent travel to Zambia, a pregnant woman develops high fever, dark urine, and confusion after a seizure; she arrives in the ED acutely unwell with hypoglycaemia.
A 33-year-old female presents to the Emergency Department with atraumatic hip pain.
A keen fisherman attends following a flu-like illness. He has a small head wound and is now jaundiced. One sign brings it all together, can you spot it?
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.
This session looks at the techniques available to collect urine samples from children in an emergency department. It discusses the evidence basis and the relative merits of each technique
The baby looks well at first, nothing really worrying – but he has been crying for last 2 days, which is unusual for him. His mother`s concern leads us to a serious diagnosis.
A 72-year-old female presents to the ED with a four week history of worsening neck pain, lethargy, reduced sensation and difficulty with fine motor movements in her upper limbs.
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.
You pick up the next patient to be seen. It’s a 25-year-old who has neck stiffness, and a headache, and a sore throat. The GP has sent them in as a possible meningitis patient. Where do you go from there?
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You receive a standby call for red-flag sepsis – Initial pattern recognition triggers the pathway. Shortly after arriving you experience ‘pattern interrupt’ and ponder new evidence in the treatment of this condition.
A 2-year-old presents with a fever and a 2 minute unresponsive episode. How will you manage them?
A woman presents with prolonged low-grade fever following a recent gynaecological procedure.
Understanding paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (PIMS-TS).
Understanding paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.
It’s probably fair to say that few of us give any great thought on how a temperature is measured.
A patient with moderate learning disability is brought in by their father because he has suddenly become aggressive.