In this Clinical Cases Podcast we discuss two cases:
Case 1: An otherwise well patient presents with visual abnormalities
Case 2: We look at the subtle ...

 In this session we interview the lead author of this paper on subarachnoid haemorrhage investigation and risk stratification Dr Pouryahya

The Study

Acute headache acounts for up to 2% of Emergency Department presentations, with up to 10% of those patients having a serious cause for their headache....

How do you manage the patient in Status Epilepticus? Dr Michael takes us through the treatment of status epilepticus in this Clinical Podcast. 30% of ...

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 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...

Non-traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) accounts for 5% of acute headache presentations to the emergency department. The urgency to make a diagno...

What are stroke mimics?

• They don't follow stroke syndromes
• The are not sudden onset
• Their severity fluctuates
• They may have other systemic signs
...

ntroduction

Patients presenting with dizziness comprise about 4% of all emergency department presentations. Our role is to exclude central causes....

 CASE

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...

 The CASE

A 7 yo child is brought in by ambulance after having tonic clonic seizures that morning. The whole family had been travelling for a holiday...

 Bell's Palsy is an ipsilateral Cranial Nerve VII (lower motor neurone) palsy. There is usually a sudden onset of facial weakness, that progressively ...