Case of the Month

15yo female, presented in May 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The patient was referred via ambulance by her primary care doctor. She’s been having a high fever (> 40° [...]

A 3-month-old infant was brought by ambulance to our emergency department following repetitive vomiting episodes at home one hour after assumption of a cow milk based formula, accompanied by muscle hypotonia, hyporeactivity, pallor [...]

A 12-year old athletic girl fell on the floor after a collision with a teammate during a basketball game. She bruised her right shoulder as well as her right hemithorax. She stated painful [...]

A 1 year and 4 months old girl was referred by a peripheral hospital due to impaired consciousness of unknown cause. The mother reported, that the child could not be properly roused after [...]

A female patient with a neurodegenerative disorder and severe dystonia is brought in by ambulance from a nursing home to your emergency department. She is neurologically severely impaired; she is non-ambulatory, non-verbal with preserved [...]

A three year old girl was referred to our emergency department for a second opinion. Four days prior, a heavy object fell on her big toe. An xray was performed, a fracture diagnosed and [...]

The mother reports a significant malposition of the right leg (Genu varus), which occurred spontaneously. She realised this for the first time after a soccer game when her son wasn’t able to kick the [...]

A 6 year old boy presents to emergency department with drooling and odynophagia for 4 hours. The patient reports that he swallowed a miniaturized yoghurt cup from a local supermarket chain (distributed as a [...]