the case.
a 28 year old male presents to your Emergency Department with a 2-3 week history of increasing neck swelling. He is now spitting out frank purulent discharge from his mouth and reports fevers and night sweats.
shrouded shock…
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.
another bubble of trouble…
the case.
43 year old female is brought into your resuscitation bay by the paramedics. She has a 2 day history of vomiting and diarrhoea on the background of type 2 diabetes and alcohol abuse. Her son is concerned that she has become increasingly confused despite drinking her usual amount of alcohol.
collective crises…
the case.
a 28 year old female is brought into your resuscitation bay by paramedic crews following a two day history of nausea and vomiting. As she rolls past, you notice that she is distressed with pain, looks clinically very dry and is quite drowsy.
an insidious intruder…
the case.
28 year old male presents to your tertiary emergency department with chest pain, exertional dyspnoea and left calf pain. [Read more…]
a perplexing paradox…
The case.
a 70 year old female is bought to your ED at 10pm via ambulance with a dense right-sided hemiparesis following a witnessed collapse at home only 30 minutes earlier. [Read more…]