CWTCH in the community: Improving education to reduce adverse outcomes for patients who fall in nursing homes.

Falls in nursing homes (NH) are common and cause significant morbidity and mortality. We proposed that by improving staff education, the volume of emergency calls, hospital conveyance and adverse patient outcomes could be reduced. An analysis of the volume of emergency calls coded as Falls from January 2020 to February 2022, with 4907 calls in total, 866 were falls (17.

Non-traumatic extraocular muscle haemorrhage associated with anticoagulation use.

We present a case of a unilateral extraocular muscle haematoma in an adult female patient who was compliant with life-long oral anticoagulation for recurrent deep vein thrombosis. The patient presented with symptoms of sudden-onset left-sided headache radiating to the temporal region, which started 2 days prior. No obvious triggering factors were identified.