In this podcast we discuss the case of: 44 year old female who presented at 4am in the morning with an acutely red and painful right eye. She had thought that the eye had started to feel a bit irritated that evening on returning from work and it had steadily worsened from there. She came to the ED as she couldn’t get off to sleep on account of the …

In this podcast we discuss the case of: 34 year male brought in by ambulance feeling unwell. He had had a recent history (of about 48hrs) suggestive of upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) - runny nose, productive cough, sore throat etc. However, in the last 12 hours or so she had started to feel much more unwell. He felt more washed out and li…

In this podcast we discuss the case of: A 28 year old female presented on a weekend after feeling unwell for about 5 days, she thought she had a cold/flu but it wasn’t improving so she came to the ED. She complained of very non-specific symptoms: mild headache, lethargy, felt a bit feverish, mild joint stiffness/pain. There were no coryzal symptoms…

In this podcast we discuss the case of: 66 year old gentleman was out having dinner with his family. He describes the pub as very hot, half way through eating his main course, he became very hot and a sweaty and then everything went blank. When he woke, his family were all gathered round him, fanning him. He had not bitten his oral mucosa and had n…

In this podcast we discuss the case of 19 year old female with a history of abdominal pain. She had noticed the pain during a morning lecture and it had initially been mild and generalised. Early associated features included nausea, malaise and she had had two episodes of loose stool. She was a new student and had been living that lifestyle so she …

In this podcast we chat through the case of a 23 year old female patient who walked into the Emergency Department complaining of a severe headache. She had no history of headaches. The pain was 9/10 and she couldn’t localise it. She said she’d had a niggling headache since lunchtime time but it had worsened throughout the day. Described as a throbb…

We're going to run through the case of a 49 year old male that presented to the ED with a two day history of chest pain and shortness of breath - it was intermittent, with no pattern and he did not really think much of it. Today the pain had changed, it had become constant and more severe. He described the pain as central and heavy. It had been ong…