the case.
46 year old male is bought into your resuscitation bay by local ambulance following a three metre fall from a work platform onto a horizontal metal railing below.
a covert combination…
the case.
72 year old male presents to your Emergency Department with a 4-5 hour history of palpitations. He appears well and has no associated symptoms.
the long way round…
the case.
a 52 year old male presents to your Emergency Department with more than 24 hours of typical sounding, retrosternal chest pain. [Read more…]
faster than most…
the case.
a 34 year old man presents to ED with chest pain & palpitations. His symptoms came on suddenly whilst doing light exercises at the gym. [Read more…]
chest pain and…
the case.
a 41 year old male presents with sudden severe retrosternal chest pain radiating into the right flank.
He also reports 3-4 weeks of intermittent chest tightness & that his doctor told him he “may need a heart valve fixed one day”. [Read more…]
having a dig…
the case.
87 year old female presents to your ED following an intentional overdose. She tells you that approximately 4 hours ago she ingested ‘most of [her] digoxin tablets’ that she bought earlier in the afternoon. [Read more…]