- Reference
This session covers decompression illness, identifying major risk factors for its development and exploring the critical role of oxygen in early management. It also provides an overview of other important diving-related conditions.
- Reference
This session concentrates on patients with actual or impending cardiopulmonary arrest.
- Reference
Radiation can be subdivided into two categories - ionizing and non-ionizing, both of which have an effect on human tissue
- Reference
The physiological effects of hypothermia mean that the management of cardiac arrest requires an altered approach.
- Reference
This session covers the assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting to an ED with the effects of hypothermia and frostbite.
- Reference
This session considers the three main forms of drug related hyperthermia, malignant hyperthermia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome and serotonin syndrome.
- Reference
Approximately 800 heat related deaths occur annually in the UK. In 2003, a heat wave in Southern England resulted in over 1000 deaths
- Reference
Chemical incidents usually happen following leaks, explosions or fires in industrial settings
- Reference
Lyme disease is a spirochete infection transmitted by ticks. ED presentation, although rare, is important to identify to enable early treatment.