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A Dagger to the Heart

Adult Trauma Call: Management of a 28-year-old male with a knife wound to the chest.
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A Broken Carpal Bone

A handy reminder that not all carpal bone fractures involve the scaphoid bone.
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SOB in Resus

Shortness of breath is a common occurrence for COPD patients, and we’re used to putting them on non-invasive ventilation. What happens when we can’t?
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What a wheeze

A child attending Emergency Department with a wheeze
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A Crush Injury

A delayed presentation after trauma with an increasing joint swelling, what gives?
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Dizzy Spells

An older patient with acute onset of vertigo. How do you decide if it’s peripheral or central vertigo?
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Lower Back Pain

A 56-year-old plumber attends with lower back pain and urinary incontinence.
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The Red Eye

Doctor, why is my vision worse after surgery?
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Chemical Eye Burns

Chemical eye injury can be caused by acids or alkali. It is important to know how to manage them in the ED.
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Sudden Vision Loss

A 45-year-old woman presents with loss of vision in her left eye
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Bone Pain

A young lady presented with abdominal pain, lethargy, (Groin) bone pain, depression and headache.
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Acute Back Pain

Another pain in the back SBA
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Acute Vision and Weight Loss

It all started with a headache…
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A Crowding Challenge

Your department is crowded with multiple ambulances arriving, very few empty clinical spaces and multiple boarded patients due to exit block.
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A Collapse whilst Running

A 13-year-old female collapses whilst running. How will you assess and manage this?
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Von Willebrand Disease (VWD)

Patient with Von Willebrand disease is brought to ED with per rectal bleeding.
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Beyond Dry Skin

A 2-year-old child presents with worsening eczema and parental concerns that she was unwell.
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Body Packers

A young man is brought to your ED by police. They suspect he has concealed drugs internally and want you to perform an intimate search and x-ray.
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Suspicious Eye Pain

A woman presents with 10/10 eye pain. Consider what could be going on, rule out the red flags and address her urgent concerns!
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Nausea and Vomiting

Management of a patient who reattends the Emergency Department with cyclical nausea and vomiting.
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Evaluating Extreme Emesis

A young pregnant woman attends with severe nausea and vomiting. She’s unable to keep tablets, food or fluids down and looks dehydrated.
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Adult Tachycardia

A young woman presents with breathlessness. She is profoundly tachycardic. How will you manage this?
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Acute Abdominal Pain

A woman attends your ED with severe lower abdominal pain and fullness, with difficulty urinating. She had roughly similar symptoms when she was diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease before.
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Rhesus disease prophylaxis

There are three pregnant patients in the department who require consideration of Rhesus status and anti-D immunoglobulin. You must assess each in turn.

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