ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the case histories of the patients with nerve root compression at L2/L3 disc level, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM), sickle cell anaemia, hyperthermic syndrome, and glaucoma. It describes the management of the drunk head injury which is one of the more difficult areas of Accident and Emergency (A&E) Medicine, the management of meningococcal meningitis, asthma, carbon monoxide poisoning. The chapter includes the diagnostic difficulties in the A&E department. Pulmonary embolus is one of the most commonly missed diagnoses in the A&E department. One must remain alert to the possibility of the diagnosis and perform blood gases on any case in which doctor consider the diagnosis a possibility. Patient with Cervical spine injury should be managed according to the ventricular fibrillation protocol of the European Resuscitation Council, commencing with defibrillation at 200J. This patient was warmed using warm intravenous fluids and pleural lavage.
