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Emergency medicine

We publish case reports as an aid to MPS members, to alert them to pitfalls that have caught their colleagues unawares. We believe that these are an invaluable risk-management tool and, as such, they should be rooted in fact – i.e. based on actual events.

Here are some emergency medicine cases published in recent editions of Casebook.

  • More than a bruise - January 2012
  • Too quick to clear the spine - January 2012
  • An evolving situation - September 2010
  • An elusive foreign body - January 2010
  • A takeaway lesson - January 2010
  • Don’t drop the baton - September 2009
  • A relative point of view - May 2009
  • Slipping up - January 2009
  • Fatal communication failure - September 2008
  • Management of testicular swelling - September 2008
  • Sudden, first and worst, again - May 2008
  • Assume nothing - September 2007
  • Too keen to close - September 2007
  • Heading for trouble - January 2007
  • A limping child - May 2007
  • Delayed diagnosis of foreign body - September 2006
  • Trophic ulcer leads to foot amputation - May 2006
  • Warning signs - May 2005
  • Rash to dismiss bruising - November 2004
  • A pain in the neck - August 2004
  • No knuckling under - May 2004

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