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…]
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. [Read more…]
against better judgement…
the case.
a 62 year old female is bought into your ED following a high-speed MVA. She has driven her car into telegraph pole at ~ 80km/hr. [Read more…]
knee without improvement…
the case.
a 64 year old type-II diabetic presents to ED at 3am with ongoing severe knee pain & fevers.
eye for an eye…
the case.
an elderly female arrives to your ED with facial swelling and extensive bruising after a fall where she struck the left-side of her face on a concrete step. She is on warfarin for atrial fibrillation, but has not had her INR tested for the past 3 weeks. [Read more…]
two in two days…
I have recently prepared a lecture on a current, yet still controversial topic for work following exposure to these two interesting cases. Here are the cases & their discussion as well as the slide-show attached…
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