A 30-year old woman presents to your Emergency Department complaining of mild abdominal discomfort and exertional dyspnoea. She feels well and doesn’t particularly want to be in hospital, but was told to present by her fertility team as she had recently had in-vitro fertilisation.
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It’s a busy Friday night at your regional Emergency Department when a 23-year-old pregnant woman presents with PV bleeding and abdominal pain. She is G1P0, estimating 6/40 by LMP. She saw her GP 4 days ago, with a BHCG 800.
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It’s 4:20am on a night shift, and you’ve finally caught up with the waiting patient list. Just as you’re thinking about where you could source some caffeine, you see a 26 year old male come up on the screen. The triage note reads: “2/7 epigastric pain, can’t sleep tonight”. You barely get a chance to chart the pink lady when a nurse places a venous gas result in front of you.
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