A 72 yo patient presents with what appears to be a pre syncopal episode at home. This is on a background history of having had a valve repair 3 wee...

A patient presents with a complaint of diplopia. “I’ve been seeing double since last night. It started after I woke up from a nap”

Patients who prese...

Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine talks about this most important topic. This was recorded at EMCORE London 2024.

Beware the 4 main areas that can result in cardiac arrest peri-intubation.

1. Hypotension
2. Hypoxaemia
3. Severe Metabolic Acidosis
4. Right Ventricular
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The patient in asystole, has a very poor prognosis. But is it really asystole?

Is there any benefit in giving one shock to that patient?

Surely we n...

In this podcast we go on the patient journey, of a 61 yo patient who presents at 11pm at night with an irregularly irregular pulse, at a rate of 167 b...

The CASE

A 58 yo patient has called the ambulance, as he is having palpitations and is feeling unwell. He has a past medical history of ischaemic hea...

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A 36 yo woman presented to the emergency department complaining of numb feet. “I can’t feel the pedals in the car when I’m driving…….. It start...

Case 1

A 35 yo male presents with palpitations and pleuritic chest pain. He’s recently had a viral illness but has no other medical history. At 1am i...

A 78yo male woke up in the morning feeling dizzy. The patient was well when lying down, but became light headed every time he got up. He waited, but s...

Hypertensive emergencies are defined as sudden and prolonged increases in the arterial blood pressure, with associated organ damage. The degree of inc...