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An elderly lady presenting with vague symptoms is found to have a deranged blood gas.
This month we discuss the SQUID protocol for DKA, Concussion Guidelines, The Physiologically Difficult Airway and New Online.
A 38-year-old fit and well female, who is 29 weeks pregnant, attends with a sudden onset of worsening, retro-orbital headache.
A 12-month-old diabetic girl presents generally unwell and vomiting.
A 76-year-old diabetic is referred with confusion and is being treated for a UTI. She is tachycardic and drowsy, is there more than sepsis?
An 81-year-old woman attends ED from a Nursing Home with a reduced GCS, tachycardia, tachypnoea, hypotension, hypothermia and hyperglycaemia.
A 46-year-old gentleman with a known history of alcohol dependence re-attends to the ED with a reduced GCS. Is he just drunk?
Nikki Abela and Liz Herrieven have treated themselves to the RCEM PEM Conference in Manchester on 21/3/2023 – World Down Syndrome Day. Put on your #LotsOfSocks for the day and have a read to see what they learned.
A 67-year-old lady presents to the ED with mild wheeze, frontal headache, fever and vomiting. She is hypotensive and tachycardic. You arrange to see her in Resus.
A 77-year-old gentleman presents to the ED five days after his endoscopic endonasal transsphenoid resection of his pituitary adenoma with a severe frontal headache, fever and multiple episodes of vomiting.
A 71-year-old female with recurrent dizzy episodes over the past 2 years.
A woman presents with 10/10 eye pain. Consider what could be going on, rule out the red flags and address her urgent concerns!