user_submitted scenarios

If you have any scenarios that you would like to share with the ALERT community then please email them to us so we add them to our user–submitted scenario library.

Scenario A — Patient with disordered consciousness.

It is 19:00hrs in the evening, you are the house officer on call and have been bleeped to see a 45 yrs old lady who has been admitted for alcohol detoxification following an alcohol related seizure today. The patient has fallen off the commode and has been found unresponsive on the floor.
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Scenario B — Patient with Sepsis

It is 02:00hrs, you are the house officer on call and have been bleeped to see a 58 year old man who underwent a total colectomy 10 days ago.
The patient is mildly confused and complaining of feeling hot.
The nurse tells you that the patient ‘doesn't’ look right.’
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Scenario C — Post Operative internal bleeding.

It is 18:30, you’re the house officer on the ward and the staff nurse calls you over to see Bob, a 67 year old man who is 5 days post elective repair of aortic aneurysm. He is in severe pain after coming back from the toilet. As you get there Bob suddenly collapses and becomes clammy, pale and unresponsive.
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