Emergency · History + examination

Red hot leg

Medium

10 min station · 2 min reading · Curtin Year 5

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Instructions

You are a medical student on placement in the emergency department. Stavros Andreou, 55, has type 2 diabetes and two days of a hot, red, painful right lower leg.

  1. Take a focused history

  2. Examine the patient

  3. Outline to the examiner:

    • Your most likely diagnosis and differentials
    • Next steps in management, including relevant investigations
  • You do not need to summarise your findings
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