The ambulance phone rings. They are 5 minutes away with a 32 yo patient with history of asthma who has had two hours of shortness of breath and wheez...

Dr Andrew Perry talks about this potentially controversial topic.. Pressors in Trauma. It's always been drilled into us that we just don't give presso...

A 62 yo patient with a previously diagnosed spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) presents with sudden onset 10/10 central severe chest pain...

 Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia

Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia (VT), occurs in structurally normal hearts and comprises about 10% of VT cases...

We're back to an old question of should we give antibiotics for otitis media? The factors always being weighed up have been around the benefit which...

A 32 yo patient presents with syncope during a game of football. He is well now, with no symptoms and normal vitals.

His ecg is shown below. What is ...

The patient with vertigo can be a clinical challenge. Patients may describe their symptoms as vertigo, or the room spinning, or dizziness, or a proble...

A patient who presents to the your Emergency Department with a non-cardiac issue has the incidental findings on the ecg shown below. The patient ha...

Here’s a patient presentation, I have residents and registrars discuss with me frequently. An elderly patient who had a mechanical fall at home is b...

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...

Patients with acute aortic syndrome, may be very difficult to diagnose. Patients who present with textbook ripping severe chest pain and accompanyin...

Syncope has three components: (15 minutes read)

1. Loss of consciousness
2. Loss of postural tone and
3. Return to baseline

Patients with syncope com...