the case. 28 year old male presents to your tertiary emergency department with chest pain, exertional dyspnoea and left calf pain.
a perplexing paradox…
The case. a 70 year old female is bought to your ED at 10pm via ambulance with a dense left-sided hemiparesis following a witnessed collapse at home only 30 minutes earlier.
twist and shout….
the case. 34 year old female presents to ED with a 2 day history of worsening left-sided pleuritic chest pain associated with shortness of breath. There has been no associated cough, fever or sputum production. She is one week post-Caesarian section; an uncomplicated, elective procedure from which she has recovered well.
Mind the gap #2…
the case. a 43 year old male presents to your ED with a three day history of severe epigastric pain and recurrent vomiting. He has now become increasingly breathless and is complaining of severe retrosternal chest pain.
a splitting headache…
the case. 39 year old female presents to your Emergency Department with a four day history of a gradually worsening headache. Whilst she has a past history of migraines, this headache is much more severe and of different character to any migraine she has had previously.