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Children are often found to have a heart murmur when seen in the Emergency Department, but when does a heart murmur actually mean something?
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This blog discusses the preparation, assessment and management of the patients presenting with maxillofacial injuries.
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Abdominal pain is a common presentation in paediatrics-increasing as the child gets older. Hopefully, this blog will serve as a guide of what to look for, when to refer and when to worry!
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Poor old lumbar spine it does a lot of the heavy lifting for the body but probably doesnt get anywhere near the attention of the cervical spine when it comes to trauma.
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Advances in neonatal care have resulted in more ex-prems being discharged into the community, and these fragile neonates tend to be frequent fliers.
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The legal aspects of Emergency Medicine can be difficult and often a trainee spends less time reading about these, unless a specific situation arises in work.
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Class A drug in the UK - illegal to possess, give away or sell. Possession can be punished with 7 years in jail.
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Its happening again. Paediatrics - moving from one infectious disease to the next. It feels like we are only just peeling down the posters from the measles outbreak, when we are putting up the pertussis one.
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Headaches are one of the most common presentations to the ED and may be primary or secondary. We want to help you differentiate between those benign ones that just require simple analgesia and reassurance, and those that require further investigation.
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This blog starts to explore workplace culture. What is culture? Why is culture so hard to change? What can I do about it?
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Cardiac arrest in pregnancy is a potential presentation to the emergency department. If it happens, you are likely to be cognitively overloaded.
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In the past, paediatric lacerations requiring sutures often required admission and a general anaesthetic for wound closure. This blog looks at how we can provide timely, cost effective and acceptable management in the ED that avoids this paradigm.
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You've just arrived for your first ED shift, excited to be allocated to resus. The red phone rings. A 45-year-old female, amitriptyline overdose, P120, BP85/45, GCS 5, ETA 5 minutes.
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As emergency medicine clinicians youll be used to patients with behaviours that are really challenging. Did you know that theres an actual definition of this?
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Once you have heard the classic croupy cough, you wont forget it.
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Febrile children compete for the most common non-traumatic paediatric presentation in the ED, causing concern for parents worldwide. Your mission: to find the source.
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In this blog, we've collated all our infographics, and some pictures, around mental health in the ED. We hope that the pictures will spark your curiosity, and you'll delve further into the original resource for further learning.
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Early recognition and treatment of sepsis in children is crucial as progression to organ failure and shock is often very rapid.
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All morning shifts start with handover, and I think that getting handover right sets the tone for the rest of the day.
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Theres a lot of tips out there for surviving as a new doctor, or as an old doctor. The transition from SHO to SpR is something that many are ready for, and many have picked up their own tips for.
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One of the most common reasons for newborns to be sent in to the ED for assessment is weight loss.