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.
- 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
- Trophic ulcer leads to foot amputation
- Warning signs
- Rash to dismiss bruising
- A pain in the neck
- No knuckling under
- Fatal communication failure - September 2008
- Management of testicular swelling - September 2008