This session explores the presentation, diagnosis and management of patients presenting to the ED with vertigo.
This session explores the presentation, diagnosis and management of patients presenting to the ED with vertigo.
This module explores the presentation, diagnosis and management of patients presenting to the ED with vertigo.
A 49-year-old man is brought to the ED by ambulance after waking this morning with severe vertigo.
This module explores the differential diagnosis of potential underlying causes of Bell’s palsy in children and highlights which cases require further investigation.
Bell’s palsy is a relatively uncommon condition presenting to primary care. Despite a benign course for most children with Bell’s palsy, there are a number of serious causes of facial paralysis which can be easily missed.
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
Sudden onset of neurological symptoms after exertion, accompanied by vacant episodes that were triggered by movement of the arm due to steno occlusive disease in the subclavian artery, proximal to the origin of the ipsilateral vertebral artery.
A 29-year-old male is working a shift behind the bar and complains of feeling dizzy. He collapses and makes a quick recovery. This is not the first time.
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
This session reviews the clinical presentation and investigation of cervical artery dissection.
This session reviews the clinical presentation and investigation of cervical artery dissection.
This month we discuss: The STANDING Protocol for Vertigo, Head Injury (Part 2 of 2), A History of A&E Performance with Steve Black, TTA Topical Anaesthetics for Corneal Abrasion and New Online.
An older patient with acute onset of vertigo. How do you decide if it’s peripheral or central vertigo?
A woman in her 50s presents with sudden onset nausea and vertigo.
An elderly man presents to the ED with dizziness associated with movement of his left arm.
Cranial nerve injuries are important clinical signs, which alert the examiner to intracranial pathology. This session will look at the more common traumatic and medical causes of cranial nerve injury to cranial nerves
We all work in the Emergency Department because we think there’s going to be lots of “emergencies”
This is the first in a series of Emergency Casebooks from the virtual hospital CFN General, with key learning points for staff working in an Emergency Department