We would like to reactivate the case of the month. Every hospital will be asked to contribute a case of the month. The list of hospitals will be published soon after the general assembly.
New cases will be published in english.
Tachycardic ECG
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 [...]
What’s wrong with this toe?
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 [...]
Gait Abnormality
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 [...]
Does yoghurt help your digestion?
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 [...]
Gowers‘ sign in a two year old boy
A two year old boy came with his parents to our ED. Almost three months prior the boy had a coxitis fugax (clinicial diagnosis, no ultrasound performed) and since then his gait pattern has [...]
A Painful Awakening
A three year old girl was brought to our ED because she fell out of bed while sleeping. She fell approximately 50cm and landed on her right side. Since that accident she has been [...]
Magnet Ingestion
A four year old boy was playing in his room, suddenly he went to his father and complaint of adominal pain. He told his father that he had swallowed one magnet. At the time [...]
Afebriler Patient mit Augenschmerzen und Abduzensparese
Auf unserer Notfallstation stellte sich spätabends ein 7.5 jähriger Patient vor mit zunehmenden linksseitigen Augenschmerzen seit zwei Tagen und erneuten Ohrenschmerzen links (nach fünftägig antibiotisch behandelter Otitis media links bis vor zwei Tagen). Zu [...]
vomit après chaque repas
Une fille âgée de 5 jours nous a été amenée aux urgences. Grossesse sans problèmes, accouchement à terme. Maman et fille ont pu quitter l’hôpital après 3 jours. Depuis ce jour-là, la petite vomit [...]
Unterbauchschmerzen
Anamnese Ein knapp 15 jähriger Patient wurde uns von einem externen Spital zugewiesen mit unklaren Unterbauchschmerzen. Die Unterbauchschmerzen hätten vor etwa 1 Woche begonnen, mittig im Unterbauch, zusätzlich Durchfall und nicht-galliges Erbrechen, deshalb ärztliche Konsultation. [...]
Douleurs du genou
Un garçon de 7 ans se présente aux urgences, qui se plaint de douleurs du genou du coté droite. Les symptômes ont commencés il y a environ une semaine, après s’être tordu la genou [...]
Schwarzer Stuhl
Auf der Notfallstation präsentiert sich ein bis anhin gesunder, knapp 3 jähriger Junge. Vor 10 Tagen am Abend bekam er Fieber von 38-39°C und diffuse Bauchschmerzen. Die Familie konsultierte einen Arzt, welcher eine Gastroenteritis [...]