A 22-year-old woman presents to the Emergency Department with fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, and a diffuse erythematous rash resembling sunburn over her body.....
A 42 year old female, presents to the Emergency Department with worsening shortness of breath. She has been unwell for a few days with increasing breathlessness and cough, which isn’t relieved with inhalers. She also reports increasing swelling of her feet and legs over the past 2 weeks...
The emergency department refers a 72-year-old gentleman who woke up this morning with excruciating pain in his chest and between his scapulae, which he describes as ‘tearing’. He is known to have hypertension and has a 50 pack-year history of smoking. On examination he has a heart rate of 103 beats-per-minute (BPM) and a blood pressure (BP) of 190/101mmHg in the right arm and 171/97mmHg in the left...
It’s February and a concerned mother brings in her 4-month-old boy, Jacob, to the paediatric emergency department. After two days of fever and runny nose, his mother, Janice, takes him to the General Practitioner. Today, Janice is concerned by his chesty cough and audible wheeze...
A 75 year old man presented to the Emergency Department with a 1 week history of progressive proximal leg weakness, a subsequent fall and resultant long lie on his living room floor. On arrival he was noted to be short of breath and had SpO2 of 82% on air...
A 40 year old lady presented to hospital with decreasing conscious level. She was found by her partner with empty paracetamol packaging on the floor...
A 34 year old woman presented to the Emergency Department with a two day history of progressively worsening double vision, followed by ataxia and slurred speech...
A 65 year old woman has a cardiac arrest at home. She is in VF and receives 2 DC shocks by the paramedics before return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) is established...
A 63 year old man with a history of hypertension and ischaemic heart disease has been admitted to the intensive care unit with refractory hypotension due to severe sepsis...
A 74 year old female with a background of hypertension presented to the emergency department with gradually increasing breathlessness and pleuritic chest pain following a recent long haul flight...
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