A 34-year-old female presents to the emergency department with a 3-day history of left ear pain, without discharge or tinnitus.
A 34-year-old female presents to the emergency department with a 3-day history of left ear pain, without discharge or tinnitus.
A 46-year-old male presents to the ED with 3 months refractory headache and subacute forehead swelling (unknown duration) with acute periorbital oedema.
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
A 42-year-old man presents to the ED with a severe headache. He is pacing up and down and says he has been woken up by a similar headache every night for the last 4 nights.
A 27-year-old female presents to the ED with one day history of sudden onset of moderate to severe intensity headache, vomiting, diplopia and abdominal discomfort.
An 11-year-old female re-presenting with an unusual facial swelling.
This is a hugely common presentation in the ED and often one many doctors try to avoid
A 45-year-old woman presents to the ED with a history of headache persisting for the past 4-5 days, accompanied by an inability to open her left eye for the past day.
A 30-year-old lady presents to the ED feeling “numb from the waist down”.
A 31-year-old female presents to the emergency department complaining of a dilated left pupil that has been noticed by a colleague at work.
Middle aged man with left sided headache and horners syndrome.
A healthy 25-year-old presents to the ED complaining she cannot text on her phone.
It is a busy winter evening in the ED. The next patient to be seen is a 37-year-old female presenting with a headache, nausea and general malaise.
A 16-year-old patient with headache and vomiting with a past medical history of dysmenorrhoea.
Headaches are one of the most common presentations to the ED and may be primary or secondary. We want to help you differentiate between those benign ones that just require simple analgesia and reassurance, and those that require further investigation.
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
This month we have Ketamine and Ondansetron, Hyperemesis Gravidarum, an interview with Vicky Price (SAM), Antibiotics for brain injury and New Online
This month we have Low vs High Dose Dexamethasone for Migraine, Thoracic aortic aneurysm, Transfusion thresholds in MI and New Online.
A 10-year-old girl presents with lethargy, vomiting, headaches and an unsteady gait. She collapsed at home a few hours prior to arrival at your ED.
This session reviews the clinical presentation and investigation of cervical artery dissection.