CT Case 005
A 75 yo female is found on the floor at home with reduced level of consciousness. She was last seen well over 12 hours prior.
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CT Case 004
A 70-year-old female presents with 12 hours duration of headache and progressive drowsiness. A CT brain is performed
CT Case 003
A 35yo male background of liver cirrhosis secondary to alcohol excess is transferred from a peripheral hospital with suspected GI bleed.
CT Case 002
A 2yo presents following fall from a chair. She has a GCS of 5 on arrival to ED. This child was intubated and taken for urgent CT brain.
ECG Case 137
The monitor alarms "extreme ventricular tachycardia". There are three features on this rhythm strip that suggest artefact -- can you spot them?
ECG Case 136
A woman in her 60s with a broad complex tachycardia. There are two ECG features that suggest an accessory pathway, can you spot them?
ECG Case 135
A single agent overdose causing AV blockade, QRS widening, and QT prolongation.... but reports of death only if QRS > 200ms. Which medication is this?
Ultrasound Case 110
A 40 yo man is admitted with lobar pneumonia. He develops new atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response; becomes hypotensive and increasingly dyspnoeic.
ECG Case 134
Crushing chest pain and diaphoresis. New inferior Q waves and T-wave inversion, yet this is a normal ECG. Can you explain why?
Ultrasound Case 109
A 6 year old boy presents with lower abdominal pain and vomiting. He has had intermittent pain for a week thought to be due to mesenteric adenitis.
ECG Case 133
Chest pain, shock and ST elevation in aVR. The LAST place this patient needs to be is in the cath lab
ECG Case 132
A negative troponin, resolved chest pain, and a "normal" ECG does not exclude ACS requiring emergent intervention