SAQ Library : Cardiovascular

A 36-year-old man with intravenous drug use presents with fever and malaise for three days. His observations are …

A 19-year-old man presents following a syncopal episode while playing basketball. He is now haemodynamically stable.

A 69-year-old female presents to the ED with 12 hours of chest pain and shortness of breath.

A 60-year-old man presents with a syncopal episode whilst at work. He is unable to describe any preceding …

A 75-year-old man is brought into the resus room of your tertiary ED with acute respiratory distress. Family …

A 59-year-old man has a witnessed collapse at the airport. CPR was immediately commenced. The ambulance will arrive …

A 5-month-old boy with known Tetralogy of Fallot presents cyanosed and distressed and is awaiting definitive surgical repair.

A 75-year-old man is referred by his GP for presumed renal colic. He has worsening flank pain and …

A 28-year-old man is BIBA to your tertiary with sudden onset severe tearing chest pain radiating through to …

A 50-year-old man presents to a peripheral ED without access to cardiac catheterisation with 1.5 hours of chest …

An 85-year-old woman with a history of ischaemic heart disease and a DDD pacemaker presents with palpitations and …

A young man presents with palpitations after chronic loperamide misuse (400–600 mg/day). An ECG is performed.

A 34-year-old man presents with sudden onset left-sided neck pain and headache after carrying his child on his …

A 76-year-old male has been referred to ED by his GP with concern for a 6cm occlusive SVC …

A 46-year-old man is brought to the resuscitation bay following a 3-metre fall from a work platform onto …

An 85-year-old man presents with a painful and pulseless right lower leg. You suspect an ischaemic limb.

A 50-year-old man presents distressed and diaphoretic with severe chest pain radiating to the back. You are concerned …

You are the ED consultant in a small rural hospital 2 hours from the nearest tertiary centre. A …

A 49-year-old man presents with syncope. He collapsed without warning or prodrome and recovered within a few minutes. …

An 84-year-old man is brought in from a nursing home following syncope. His ECG is shown. The monitor …

A 50-year-old man is brought into your resus bay with palpitations. A 12-lead ECG is performed.

A 55-year-old man self-presents to your regional ED with new onset shortness of breath on exertion and presyncope …

A 10-year-old girl presents to your District Hospital ED with lethargy, subjective fevers, vomiting, diarrhoea and upper abdominal …

A 62-year-old female is brought into the resuscitation area of your department by ambulance. She woke from sleep …