clinical cases

3 min read 2022-09-01 17:10:00

Case 28: Nah-bscess

A 35 year old male with a history of IV drug use and HIV on ART presents to the emergency department with pain and redness of his left upper

3 min read 2022-05-03 19:41:43

The nerdy goodness of #FOAMed #EBM is back with Dr Justin Morgenstern and I discussing a lot of papers – PE, COvID, flaming fingers,

3 min read 2022-03-24 05:51:05

The latest episode of the Journal Club with Dr J Morgenstern is now out. Lots of evidence to reassure you that it’s all a bit unclear! Some great

2 min read 2022-02-28 21:05:17

Suggest an improvement The Geeky Medics collection of over 250 OSCE stations provides everything you need to practise your clinical

10 min read 2022-01-12 22:36:55

Here is a complicated clinical case for your consideration. About once every three months I am allocated to a theatre list with our visiting

1 min read 2021-09-16 20:44:50

It has been 2 and a half years since I wrote the last Broomedocs Clinical Case, #146 … and I have recently had a few random readers ask me…

1 min read 2021-08-26 19:35:15

Here is the case: A healthy, 6 year old boy, Joey, presents to the ED for the second time in a week with abdominal pain. He was initially seen 3 days

1 min read 2021-08-18 16:58:59

Welcome backk tot he Journal Club with Justin Morgenstern and I prattling on about all sorts of ED EBM goodies. 80 miinutes, 10 papers and many

3 min read 2021-02-03 15:00:00

A 43 year old female with no past medical history presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with lower abdominal pain for the last three hours.

4 min read 2021-01-06 15:00:00

A 68 year old female with no significant past medical history presents to the Emergency Department (ED) with one day of right knee pain after

4 min read 2020-12-02 15:00:00

A 44 year old male with a history of heroin abuse presents to the emergency department with altered mental status. Per EMS, the patient was

2 min read 2020-10-28 15:00:00

A 56 year old male with a history of uncomplicated diverticulitis presented to the emergency room with left lower quadrant pain and loose

3 min read 2020-09-02 15:00:00

A 79 year old female presented to the emergency room with worsening dyspnea on exertion. She reported orthopnea, leg swelling, and only

3 min read 2020-08-03 15:00:00

A 72 year old male with known abdominal aortic aneurysm (5.7 cm s/p fem-tib bypass, L AKA) presents for 3 weeks with diarrhea and mild LLQ

3 min read 2020-05-21 07:43:38

A previously healthy 28-year-old male presents to the Emergency Department complaining of one month of fatigue, shortness of breath, and