A 55-year-old woman presents with acute left eye pain, blurred vision, redness, headache and halos around lights that started when she was watching TV in a dimly lit room.
Chemical eye injuries are time-critical emergencies. This blog outlines how to rapidly recognise and manage them in the ED, with practical tips on irrigation, pH monitoring, grading, and safe discharge.
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.
This guideline sets out the standards for timeliness of provision of analgesia and provides an approach to the delivery of analgesia for adult patients presenting to the ED.
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.
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 36-year-old male presents to the ED with left eye pain and ‘redness’ for one day, especially uncomfortable in bright light. He also reports blurred vision and floaters.
A 59-year-old man presents to the ED at 11pm with acute onset severe (9/10) generalised headache and vomiting, which started at the dinner table at 5pm.
This session aims to increase the awareness of Kawasaki disease with a focus on recognising the principal clinical features, in line with recent updates to the NICE guidelines
This learning session aims to increase the awareness of Kawasaki disease with a focus on recognising the principal clinical features, in line with recent updates to the NICE guidelines.
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
A 69-year-old lady presents with a 3-week history of right sided headache and jaw claudication, associated with significant reduction in vision of the right eye for 2 days.
Eyes are the windows to the soul. They have the power to mesmerise and enchant even the hardest of hearts. Yet, for many clinicians, they also instill genuine fear.
A previously healthy 28-year-old male accountant presents to the ED with pain in his left eye.
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