A 25-year-old man has attended the Emergency Department four times in the last fortnight with low back pain.…
Is it a clot?
A 65-year-old female presents to the ED with a painful swollen left leg. How confident are you in risk assessment and management of DVT?…
Punch Injury, What is the Best Management?
The emergency nurse practitioner shows you these x-rays. This injury happened today, the skin is intact…
The Unexpected Cardiac Arrest
A patient having a large laceration sutured suddenly goes into cardiac arrest.…
A Swollen Knee
A 3-year-old girl presents to ED with a swollen left knee, limping.…
The Limping Toddler
Harry is a 2-year-old boy who presents to the ED with a one day history of a limp.…
An Acute Wrist Injury
A patient presents after falling backwards onto an outstretched right hand.…
Hypothermia and Frostbite
This module covers the assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting to an ED with the effects of hypothermia and frostbite.…
The Motorcyclist’s Thumb
A 45-year-old man attends the ED 3 days after a motorbike accident.…
An interesting case of fingernail clubbing
A 68-year-old man attends the ED one evening with a painful right knee.…
Local Anaesthetics
Local anaesthetics are amongst the most widely used drugs in any emergency department. It is, therefore, essential that emergency medicine clinicians can use these drugs safely and effectively.…
Triple Trouble
A 40-year-old man is brought to the ED after being hit on his right hand side by a car travelling at approximately 20 mph.…
Common Entrapment Syndromes
Nerve entrapment syndromes are a group of conditions in which peripheral nerves are damaged, through compression or repeated trauma.…
Can’t stand – bilateral leg weakness
A 25-year-old male presents with a five day history of bilateral muscular leg pain.…
Traumatic Elbow Injuries
Elbow injuries are common and acute elbow trauma accounts for 2-3% of all visits to the emergency department.…
Acute Rhabdomyolysis
Rhabdomyolysis is the breakdown of muscle fibres resulting in the release of muscle fibre cell contents into the bloodstream.…
Acute Rhabdomyolysis
This session looks at the causes, identification and treatment of rhabdomyolysis in the ED.…
Netball Nasties
An 11-year-old girl presents to Paediatric A&E complaining of left knee and thigh pain.…
A Wrist Injury Not to be Missed
A 32-year-old male presents to the ED following a fall on his outstretched left hand from a height of 1.5m.…
Acute Limb Ischaemia
This session covers the diagnosis and initial management of a patient with acute limb ischaemia.…