A 6-year-old boy with a background of sickle cell disease presents to the ED with two days of worsening right hip pain and is unable to weight bear.…
Anyone for a BRUE?
An 8-month infant is brought into the ED following a collapsing episode as witnessed by his distress mother. What do you do next?…
A Real Pain in the Neck
A 67-year-old man, with a background of type II diabetes, presents with pain in the left side of his neck, lower back pain and numbness in his left arm.…
Blue Sunday
A 23-year-old woman is rushed into Resus following a collapse in a local night club.…
A novel use of space?
Bed blocked again, what can we do!…
Barking in the Night
A 2-year-old boy is brought to the ED at 2 am with noisy breathing and a barking cough.…
Glandular Fever – It’s all in the kiss
Is love in the air? or is it the kissing disease? It was only a kiss, how did it end up like this? A teenage boy got more than he was bargaining for after an innocent kiss with his girlfriend but do y…
Low Sugar Moment
The patient is now on ITU, having had a 2 hour delay because of errors.…
Under Pressure
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.…
Dyspnoea and Chest Pain in a Young Man
A 17-year-old tall thin male presents with sudden onset of sharp, stabbing bilateral chest pain, worse on inspiration and most severe under left scapula.…
Neuroprotective Ventilation in Traumatic Brain Injury
A 21-year-old man is involved in a high speed RTC. He has a GCS of 6/15 at the scene and has an isolated head injury.…
Another Saturday Night Facial Injury: Am I Managing These Patients Correctly?
It is Saturday night and your next patient is a 28-year-old man who has been assaulted earlier that evening.…
Black & Blue: Inflicted (non-accidental) Injury
The unspoken disease of inflicted, non-accidental injury in children.…
Abdominal Pain – ‘Could he just have a chest film please’?
A 14-year-old boy attends the Paediatric ED with a 2 day history of worsening colicky central abdominal pain.…
A Hypertensive Emergency
A 56-year-old man presents to the ED with chest pain.…
Bee careful kids, it’s Paediatric Anaphylaxis!
A stinging tale of paediatric anaphylaxis, with the added buzzzz of pre-hospital emergency care.…
Sausage Finger
Learn the causes and management of a painful & swollen digit.…
Tummy Pain. Again!
A 13-year-old girl presents to the Paediatric ED with a 48 hour history of nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.…
A Shocking Accident
A 14-year-old girl is haemodynamically unstable following an RTC.…
Sudden Collapse in a Young Man
A 27-year-old man presents to the ED with a history of collapse whilst on a treadmill at his local gym. He was witnessed to have been briefly unresponsive but there was no seizure activity.…