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A pre-alert has been received for a 25-year-old man who has fallen from a high wall while intoxicated. He is being transferred to your hospital with full spinal immobilisation in place.

On arrival in the Emergency Department, he is on a spinal board, has a cervical spine collar in situ with three-point immobilisation of the head, and is conversant but agitated. He is complaining of neck pain with paraesthesia and weakness of all four limbs...

Author Dr Nick Charlesworth

COVID ARDS Proning

A 23-year-old man presents to A&E having sustained a blunt force trauma to his head outside a nightclub. On arrival, he has just vomited for the second time and is confused. He is aggressive and claims not to remember the events. He shouts at you that he has no other medical problems, and no collateral history is available.

There is an obvious red swelling above his right brow ridge. There is a substantial ecchymosis overlying the right orbit...

Author Dr Andrew Gardner and Dr Meesha Jogia

A 40-year-old gentleman with no past medical history of note presents to the Emergency Department with increasing shortness of breath, productive cough, fever and pleuritic right sided chest pain for 7 days.

On assessment he is noted to be tachycardic (heart rate 110 bpm), tachypnoeic (respiratory rate 30 breaths/minutes), febrile (temperature 38.0oC), SpO2 of 85% on 15L/min O2 using a non-rebreathe mask and a PaO2 of 8.0 kPa...

Author Dr Lamya Mohammed

Patient transfer to CT

Patient transfer to CT