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Hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar state is a medical emergency and is different from DKA and as such its treatment requires a different approach.
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A man in his thirties presents to the ED after being instructed to do so by an optician, suspecting a stroke.
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You are handed the ECG of a lady with known alcohol excess who has presented with at least 48 hours of vomiting. The ECG reveals one of her blood tests may be critical but which one?
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A 35-year-old male presents with central non radiating chest pain with ECG changes and a blood pressure of 241/179mmHg.
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An 80-year-old woman arrives after an unwitnessed fall, uninjured but profoundly unwell - dizzy, fatigued, and oliguric. Could this be the tip of a multifactorial medical iceberg?
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A 38-year-old man reattends obtunded and narcosed after being treated for a DVT the day before.
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A 21-year old male has been stabbed outside of a night-club.
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A 24-year-old presents with haematemesis on a background of alcohol excess.
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An 18-year-old man presents with left upper quadrant and left lower chest wall pain following a fall from a skateboard at a height of approximately 4ft.
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Young adult female patient presenting to the ED with abdominal pain, constipation and confusing findings in erect abdominal x-ray.
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A 2-year-old boy is brought to the ED by his parents after accidentally drinking water from a glass where they had disposed of cigarette butts overnight.
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An 11-year-old female re-presenting with an unusual facial swelling.
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A 75-year-old female with no significant past medical history presents to the ED with sudden onset of sharp left upper quadrant pain.
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A 45-year-old male, with unresolved cyanosis despite oxygen, presents with pleuritic chest pain and recent PE history. Arterial blood gas was performed to assess underlying hypoxemia.
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A neonate presents to the emergency department with significant jaundice.
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A 56-year-old gentleman cant bend his knee after 3 days of increasing pain and swelling.
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A 70-year-old female presents to the ED with non-traumatic calf pain and swelling over the last 24 hours. She is completely unable to weight-bear.
- Clinical Case
An elderly lady, who has fallen on grass bank, presents with an obvious deformity of the right foot and pain in dorsal area foot.
- Clinical Case
A 59-year-old man pre-alerted to the PCI team with symptomatic CHB and received Atropine prehospitally. The patient is directed to the ED and is stable on assessment with significant bradyarrhythmia.
- Clinical Case
You diagnose DKA in a child, how much fluids do you prescribe?
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A 30-year-old female athlete patient presents with hip pain progressively worsening for 3 weeks.
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An 11-year-old boy is seen in the accident and emergency department by an SHO.
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A 7-year-old presents with a red, painful eye following a playground trauma.
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While working in the minors area of a busy teaching hospital's ED, a somewhat flustered junior doctor approaches you to confess her actions.