
A 2 year old child who has inserted a plastic bead into his right nostril is brought to the emergency department by his mother. The child is not distressed. Part of the bead is visualised high up in the nostril.
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A 2 year old child who has inserted a plastic bead into his right nostril is brought to the emergency department by his mother. The child is not distressed. Part of the bead is visualised high up in the nostril.

You are managing a 26 year old man from a motorbike crash. He has an isolated open book pelvic fracture. The patient has already received 2000ml of crystalloid and 6 units of blood.

An elderly woman with dementia is sent to your emergency department from a nursing home. In the last 3 days she has had a change in behaviour and is acutely agitated

A 16 year old woman is brought to the emergency department by her parents who are concerned about her recent loss of weight. She is known to have an eating disorder and currently has a BMI of 15

You have been telephoned by a 45 year old man who received treatment in you emergency department three days ago for neck pain after a motor vehicle collision. At that time, he was told the cervical spine X-rays were normal and was discharged home.
A 50 year-old woman sees the world spin round when she hangs up her washing. Can you make the diagnosis and effect a cure?

Here we go again… time to prepare for the weekend by silencing the “snap! crackle! pop!” of your apoptosing neurons by rejuvenating them with a taste of the FFFF!

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