Author: Fiona Mendes / Editor: Yasmin Sultan / Reviewer: Amanda King, Fiona Mendes / Codes: / Published: 04/10/2023
A 50-year-old lady, with a known background of excess alcohol use, presents to your Emergency Department (ED) with a head injury sustained after falling down a flight of stairs. She is acutely confused.
The patient is moving too much to obtain a CT scan so the anaesthetist is called to intubate them.