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Sign Up Learn MoreA 64 year old man presents to the Emergency Department following a head injury. He is known to be alcohol dependent. On examination you note
>A 34 year old woman is brought to the Emergency Department with postpartum bleeding 48 hours following a home delivery. She has no past medi
>A 70 year old man is brought to the Emergency Department by paramedics. He tells you he tripped whilst crossing the road and hit his face on
>A 65 year old woman, with known hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia, presents to ED complaining of an episode of weakness affecting her l
>A 21 year old patient is brought to ED having been rescued from a house fire. She has sustained circumferential partial thickness burns with
>An 8 day old baby girl is brought to the Emergency Department by her parents. They are concerned as she has lost 15% of her birth weight and
>A 56 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 1 week history of increasing confusion and a single seizure. He has a history
>A patient presents to ED with itching and swollen lips. He is known to be allergic to nuts. He receives adrenaline but there is no improveme
>A 19 year old man is brought into ED by paramedics after being acting strangely at a dance festival. His observations are: GCS 12/15, BP 115
>A 15 year old girl is brought to the Emergency Department by her parents following an intentional overdose. She has taken approximately fift
>A 19 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 2 day history of penile ulcers. You suspect genital herpes. You redirect him t
>A 16 year old boy with known sickle cell disease presents to the Emergency Department complaining of pain in both hands after going out for
>A 10 year old child presents to ED with bilateral burns to her forearms after pulling a pan of hot water off the stove. She is distressed an
>A 49 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a cough. He is HIV positive and not compliant with his anti-retroviral medicatio
>A 19 year old man presents to ED complaining of a sudden onset sharp chest pain which is worse when he inhales or coughs. The pain came on 4
>Whilst on your ITU rotation, you are on a ward round when your consultant asks about the arterial waveform displayed on the patient's monito
>A 56 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department due to fatigue and worsening confusion. Her blood tests show an elevated TSH and yo
>A 34 year old woman is brought to the Emergency Department by paramedics following a seizure at home. The seizure was self limiting and the
>A 24 year old is brought to ED by the police after causing a disturbance in the local high street. She has been involved in a violent alterc
>A 65 year old farmer presents to the Emergency Department with a soiled puncture wound to his thenar eminence which he sustained whilst fixi
>A 76 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department complaining of vertigo. Her symptoms are triggered by specific movements of the hea
>A 32 year old farm worker has presented to the ED with an infected laceration on a digit. You are concerned about the possible spread of inf
>A 28 year old male patient is brought to the Emergency Department following a motorbike accident. On performing a full neurological examinat
>A 35 year old woman presents to ED with sudden onset chest pain and breathlessness. She has no significant past medical history and takes no
>A 54 year old man is asked to present to the Emergency Department after routine blood tests as part of an occupational medical showed he was
>A 24 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a closed head injury following a road traffic collision. On examination you note
>A 14 year old boy is brought to the Emergency Department with a limp. He complains of left hip and knee pain which has been increasing over
>An 18 year old rugby player is brought to the Emergency Department by his teammates. He was punched to the face during a game. On examinatio
>A family present to the Emergency Department complaining of headaches and nausea for the past 2 days. They have recently moved into new rent
>A child is sent to the Emergency Department by her GP with suspected whooping cough as she is having severe coughing fits followed by vomiti
>A 19 year old student presents to the Emergency Department with a 2 day history of headache, fever and myalgia. She has recently returned fr
>A 23 year old man presents to the Emergency Department after an alleged assault. He was hit in the face with a cricket bat. He has a clearly
>A 15 year old boy presents to the ED after having been shot in the face with a BB gun. He has a solitary penetrating wound just inferior to
>A 56 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 2 hour history of right flank pain. His urine dipstick is positive for blood,
>A 19 year old woman is brought the Emergency Department with a painful burning rash. She has recently completed a course of antibiotics for
>A 31 year old, known IV drug user, is brought to ED in cardiac arrest. The paramedics have been unable to establish intravenous access due t
>A 76 year old man is brought to the Emergency Department from his care home by his family. They describe worsening confusion and mobility ov
>A 19 year old man is brought to the Emergency Department following an overdose of diazepam. He was seen to ingest twenty 5 mg tablets by his
>A 24 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department with a headache and increased thirst. She describes a "pins and needles" feeling in
>A 34 year old man presents to the Emergency Department following an assault. He states he was punched to the face, there was no loss of cons
>A 39 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department with a 1 hour history of facial swelling associated with abdominal pain and vomitin
>A 34 year old man presents to the Emergency Department after developing palpitations during a 5km race. On examination his heart rate is 185
>A 19 year old male presents to the Emergency Department after noticing a swelling in his neck. On examination you note painless asymmetrical
>A 19 year old medical student presents to the Emergency Department with a 1 hour history of trismus and bilateral temporomandibular joint (T
>You have been asked to assess the capacity of a 23 year old woman who is refusing treatment for a paracetamol overdose. Which of the followi
>A 56 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with an acutely painful right great toe. He denies trauma and is otherwise well. He h
>A 27 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department complaining of increasing lethargy over the past 2 months. She has recently moved t
>A 27 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department complaining of vaginal discomfort and discharge. She describes a foul smelling prof
>A 27 year old man presents to the Emergency Department complaining of pain in his left lower leg. He was seen in the Emergency Department 2
>A 71 year old man, with known diabetes mellitus (type II) and hypertension, presents to the ED with a 2 day history of lethargy and vomiting
>A 34 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department after a choking episode whilst at an "all you can eat" buffet. Which of the followi
>A 54 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a three day history of back pain. When you review him, he admits to finishing a
>A 35 year old known intravenous drug user (IVDU), presents to the Emergency Department complaining of feeling generally unwell with low back
>A 6 year old boy is brought to the Emergency Department with an exacerbation of his asthma. His mother tells you his symptoms have been incr
>A man is brought to the Emergency Department after falling from a ladder. He hit his head on a nearby wall and was unconscious for 2 minutes
>A 56 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department with a 3 day history of vaginal bleeding. She has had 2 previous vaginal deliveries
>A 34 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 2 day history of vomiting and epigastric pain. Whilst in the Emergency Departm
>A 43 year old man presents to the Emergency Department after being found unresponsive in a nearby town centre. He is well known to the depar
>A 67 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department with a three month history of fatigue, shortness of breath and "numb feet". On exam
>A 2 year old boy is brought to the Emergency Department in the middle of the night. The triage nurse suspects croup. Which of the following
>A 3 year old girl is brought to the Emergency Department by her concerned parents. They tell you she has been vomiting for the past 24 hours
>A 65 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department following a fall at home. She has a past medical history of obesity and hypertensio
>A 6 month old boy is brought to the Emergency Department by his concerned mother. She reports a change to his pattern of breathing and being
>A 54 year old man presents to the Emergency Department complaining of increasing fatigue. On examination you note pallor and suspect the pat
>You have been asked to give a teaching session to a group of medical students attached to the Emergency Department. The topic of the session
>A 23 year old man presents to the Emergency Department having injured his right shoulder playing lacrosse. From your history and examination
>A 35 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department with a 6 hour history of vertigo. She noticed it upon waking and it has been consta
>A 4 year old boy is brought to the Emergency Department by his parents after falling from a climbing frame in a nearby park. They tell you h
>A 76 year old man presents to the Emergency Department complaining of scrotal pain over the last 12 hours. He has a past medical history of
>A 15 year old girl is brought to the Emergency Department by her parents following an intentional overdose. She has taken multiple morphine
>A 45 year old man is brought to the Emergency Department after falling approximately 10 metres from a roof on a building site. His colleague
>A 45 year old man presents with a history of a painful, red and watering left eye. On examination you note a bluish purple discolouration of
>You have been asked to give a teaching session to a group of junior colleagues. The title of the session is "Managing Obstetric Complication
>A 67 year old man presents to the Emergency Department complaining of pain in his scrotum. He has no significant past medical history. On ex
>A 54 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department complaining of left sided facial and ear pain. She has no past medical history and
>A 2 year old boy is brought to the Emergency Department by his parents in the middle of the night. They tell you he awoke with a "barking co
>A 30 year old woman presents to ED with a 2 week history of bloody diarrhoea after returning from a holiday in Morocco. On examination her a
>A 64 year old woman present to the Emergency Department complaining of fever and malaise. She has no past medical history. One week ago she
>A 45 year old man is brought to the Emergency Department by paramedics following a road traffic collision. A CT trauma series shows liver an
>A 45 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department with abdominal pain. She is hypotensive and hypoglycaemic. She has a past medical h
>A 23 year old professional skateboarder presents to the Emergency Department complaining of pain to the right wrist following a fall. On exa
>A 25 year old man presents to the Emergency Department complaining of worsening pain and paraesthesia in his lower leg. He was only discharg
>A 32 year old man presents to ED complaining of palpitations and lightheadedness. He denies any chest pain or breathlessness and has not oth
>A 15 year old boy is brought to the Emergency Department by his father. Over the last 3 hours he has developed a non-blanching rash covering
>A 53 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department with repeated attacks of double vision over the last week. She describes the diplop
>A 47 year old man presents to the Emergency Department complaining of a central band-like chest pain. He is obese with a history of type 2 d
>A 14 year old girl is brought to the Emergency Department by her parents following an intentional overdose. She has taken approximately fift
>A 55 year old man presents to the Emergency Department following a collapse episode during his dialysis session. He has a past medical histo
>A 27 year old man presents to the Emergency Department complaining of leg pain following a particularly violent tackle during a football gam
>A 14 year old is brought to ED by his parents following a football game in which he hit his face on a paved surface 30 minutes ago. He has a
>A 54 year old man presents to the Emergency Department complaining of right eye pain after doing some home improvement. You suspect a foreig
>A 9 year old girl is brought to ED by her grandparents with vaginal bleeding. She has recently returned from a summer holiday visit to her p
>A 54 year old man presents to the Emergency Department after a choking episode whilst eating. Which of the following is a sign of severe air
>A 67 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department complaining of right eye pain, headache and nausea. On examination you note a reduc
>A 35 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department complaining of a 5 day history of progressive muscle weakness and paraesthesia whic
>A 69 year old man presents to the Emergency Department complaining of 3 days of dysuria. He tells you that over the last day he has had a ve
>A 54 year old man is brought to the Emergency Department by paramedics complaining of central chest pain. Whilst examining the patient he be
>A 69 year old woman presents to ED with a red hot painful left knee. Joint aspiration is performed and the results are: Colour: clear y
>A 26 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department complaining of back pain, trouble walking and difficulty emptying her bladder. She
>A 68 year old man is brought to the hospital following a seizure. He had a 2-week history of confusion before this. You note his plasma sodi
>A 45 year old homeless man presents to the Emergency Department with loss of colour vision. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis 1 month ago a
>A 64 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 3 day history of scrotal pain and fever. On examination you find a normal appe
>A 19 year old woman is brought to the Emergency Department following a seizure. What is the most common metabolic cause of seizure activity?
>A 21 year old is brought into the Emergency Department by ambulance with a stab wound to his left upper back. You notice bubbling of blood a
>A 45 year old woman is brought to the Emergency Department after collapsing at work. She is now alert. Her blood results shows a significant
>A 21 year old man presents with sudden onset chest pain and shortness of breath. Chest x-ray demonstrates a large left sided pneumothorax. A
>A 29 year old man presents to ED complaining of sudden onset pain and blurring in his left eye. The left eye is clearly red and watering and
>A 2 year old girl is brought to ED by her mum after she had a choking episode 3 hours ago while playing with her mum's purse. She is complai
>A 34 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 3 day history of abdominal pain. On examination palpation of the left lower qu
>A 25 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 4 month history of haemoptysis, weight loss and night sweats. You suspect tube
>A 3 year old boy is brought to the Emergency Department by his father. He has developed an itchy rash over the last 24 hours. On examination
>You are preparing to perform a procedural sedation for a reduction of an ankle fracture-dislocation. Regarding procedural sedation, which of
>A 35 year old female is brought into hospital following a road traffic accident. Imaging shows retroperitoneal trauma. Which of the followin
>A 19 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department after inverting her ankle on an escalator. She has no significant past medical hist
>A 1 year old girl is brought to the Emergency Department by her parents. She has been coughing for 3 days and been off her food. She is febr
>You are leading a teaching session for your colleagues on waveform capnography. Which of the following denotes the end-tidal carbon dioxide
>A concerned father brings in his 3 year old son. He tells you he found his son in his bedroom with the battery compartment cover of one of h
>A 43 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department complaining of 3 days of visual disturbance in the left eye. On examination you not
>You are assessing a 29 year old woman who presents to the Emergency Department with wheeze and shortness of breath. She is known to suffer w
>A 2 year old is brought into the Emergency Department with intense bouts of coughing. She has been having cold-like symptoms over the past w
>A 45 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 2 day history of increasing back pain. He cannot recall any specific trauma. H
>A 25 year old woman who is 34 weeks pregnant, presents to the Emergency Department with a severe frontal headache and visual blurring. She h
>A 29 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department with a 1 hour history of sudden onset, severe, diffuse headache, and vomiting. She
>A woman presents to ED complaining of a sudden onset posterior headache and photophobia. You have been asked to perform a lumbar puncture 12
>A 36 year old man presents to the Emergency Department after being assaulted in a nearby park. He tells the triage nurse he was kicked in th
>A 84 year old man is brought into ED from a nursing home with a 3 day history of diarrhoea. He has had 12+ episodes of watery diarrhoea, wit
>A 3 day old baby boy is brought to the Emergency Department by his mother. She has noticed that he has become jaundiced. He is otherwise wel
>A 32 year old man is brought into the Emergency Department after complaining of chest pain whilst in the gym. Whilst you are assessing him h
>A 28 year old man is brought to the Emergency Department after being found unresponsive in a nearby playpark. On examination you note eviden
>A 51 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department complaining of right upper quadrant pain. She has presented with a similar complain
>A 65 year old man is brought into the Emergency Department after collapsing on a golf course. The paramedics are performing CPR and report t
>A 45 year old presents to the Emergency Department with a fever, dysphagia and sore throat. The triage nurse notes a stridor and moves the p
>A 60 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department with a headache in the right temporal region which has come on over the last couple
>A 33 year old man presents to ED complaining of shortness of breath. He has no significant past medical history and has never smoked. X-ray
>A newborn baby boy is brought to the Emergency Department as his mother is concerned he has turned yellow. On examination you note jaundice
>An 18 year old female student, who is known to have type 1 diabetes mellitus presents to ED with polyuria, polydipsia, nausea and abdominal
>A 13 year old boy is brought to ED by his parents with ankle pain after falling awkwardly on his ankle while skateboarding. He is unable to
>A 23 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 6 hour history of palpitations. He has no past medical history. He denies ches
>You are discussing the central venous pressure waveform in a teaching session for medical students. What does the y descent represent on the
>A 19 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 3 day history of right ear pain. He has a past medical history of ulcerative c
>A 43 year old woman is brought to the Emergency Department after drowning at a nearby beach. She was seen to be struggling before she became
>A 25 year old man is brought into the Emergency Department by police under a section of the Mental Health Act. He was found on a multistorey
>A 21 year old woman with type 1 diabetes is brought to the Emergency Department by her mother, she is concerned she may be in diabetic ketoa
>A 61 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a history of central chest pain 2 hours prior which came on at rest. He experien
>A 72 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department with a 3 day history of increasing facial swelling and pain. She has a past medical
>You have been asked to give a teaching session to junior colleagues. The topic of the teaching session is "Environmental Emergencies" and as
>A 64 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department complaining of 1 hour of central, crushing chest pain. What is the diagnosis?
>A 4 year old girl is brought to the Emergency Department in her mum's arms. She is floppy and unresponsive. You cannot feel a central pulse
>You are called to attend a 34 year old female patient in ED who the nurse suspects is choking on a sandwich. She is talking in short sentenc
>You have been asked to review a 32 year old man who fell through a greenhouse window. He has multiple lacerations over all four limbs. His w
>A 42 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department complaining of increasing visual loss in her left eye over the last 5 days. She des
>An 83 year old man is brought to the Emergency Department by your local police service. They tell you he was found in a nearby supermarket c
>You are asked to assess a 3 month old boy brought to the Emergency Department by his parents. They describe several days of "runny nose" and
>You are asked to insert a nasogastric tube for feeding. The chest x-ray to confirm nasogastric tube placement is shown. What is the most app
>A 72 year old man presents to the Emergency Department complaining of chest pain which started whilst gardening. A 12 lead ECG is performed
>A 67 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 2 month history of increasing breathlessness associated with a 1 month history
>A 75 year old woman presents to ED with an injury to her right hand after she caught her finger while tucking in her bedsheets. Which of the
>A 36 year old man, working as a fruit picker on a farm in the UK, presents to ED with pain after being bitten by a snake. On examination, yo
>A 21 year old migrant fruit-picker is brought to ED unwell after accidentally ingesting some liquid fertiliser while working on the farm. He
>A 36 year old woman who is 31 weeks pregnant presents to the Emergency Department concerned she may have pre-eclampsia. She has no significa
>A 16 year old presents to ED having been bitten by a snake while playing football in a local field in the UK. She is complaining of severe p
>A 30 year old woman is brought to the Emergency Department by paramedics after "blacking out" on the London Underground. She recalls feeling
>A 54 year old woman presents to the Emergency Department complaining of increasing shortness of breath on exertion. Her full blood count sho
>An 18 year old woman is brought to ED by her boyfriend with lethargy, nausea, irritability and drowsiness. On triage, her blood glucose is 1
>A 64 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 2 hour history of pleuritic chest pain and shortness of breath. He has a past
>A 34 year old man presents to the Emergency Department complaining of a painful red eye. What finding can be seen?
>A 36 year old man is brought to the Emergency Department by paramedics. He was found at home by his family unresponsive in bed. He has a his
>A 64 year old roofer is brought to ED following a fall from a roof at work. The paramedics who hand the patient over suspect that he has neu
>A 41 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with fever, abdominal distension, and confusion. An abdominal paracentesis is perform
>A 1 year old boy is brought to the Emergency Department by his parents. They describe a 1 day history of intermittent inconsolable crying ep
>A 27 year old man presents to the Emergency Department after waking with a sore right eye. What is the most likely diagnosis?
>You have been asked to assist in performing a ketamine sedation for a child who requires suturing to a large laceration on her right thigh.
>An 18 year old female is brought to ED with a fever, headache and neck stiffness. Meningitis is suspected and your consultant asks you to pe
>A 68 year old man is brought to the Emergency Department by his family. He has become increasingly fatigued over the previous week and in th
>A 25 year old man is brought to the Emergency Department following a road traffic collision. He has signs of a closed head injury. On examin
>A 20 year old patient attends the Emergency Department having received a gunshot wound to his right arm. Following initial resuscitative mea
>A 42 year old motorcyclist is brought into ED following a road traffic collision in which he was struck by an SUV as it pulled out of a junc
>A 46 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 3 day history of epigastric pain and vomiting. He describes the pain as a "sha
>A 74 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a 6 day history of productive cough and fever. He describes the cough as produci
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