This module covers ACES scans which can provide crucial information in undifferentiated shocked patients.…
Orbital Cellulitis
There’s more than meets the eye in this case of orbital cellulitis.…
It’s all in her head
A 10-year-old girl presents with lethargy, vomiting, headaches and an unsteady gait. She collapsed at home a few hours prior to arrival at your ED.…
Deep Vein Thrombosis
This module deals with the assessment and management of possible deep vein thrombosis in the emergency department.…
The Limping Child (Perthes disease)
Investigating a child presenting with a limping gait to your Paediatric Emergency Department.…
Congenital Heart Disease
This module details the three main presentations of Congenital Heart Disease to the ED; shock, cyanosis and congestive heart failure.…
Lightning Learning – Struck by Lightning
During Summer storms, lightning strikes can cause fatalities but what happens to the survivors?…
Traumatic Hip Dislocation in a Young Woman – a complication
An 18-year-old female is brought into the ED following a head-on collision with another car with a combined speed of approximately 100mph.…
Diabetic Ketoacidosis – The Sweet Killer
Diabetic Ketoacidosis, very common presentation to the ED, is a potentially life-threatening complication of type 1 diabetes. The Joint British Diabetes Societies have developed recent consensus guide…
Acute Right Heart Failure
This learning session focuses on the understanding, recognition and management of acute RHF.…
Supratherapeutic Paracetamol Overdose
This case describes a therapeutic excess of paracetamol and explores the further management of complications in an unintentional paracetamol overdose.…
Not Feeling Great on my Great Toe
How will you manage a patient presenting with an atraumatic painful swelling of their great toe?…
Echo in Cardiac Arrest
You are assigned to perform an echo in life support on a 45-year-old patient with a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.…
Atraumatic Thigh Pain
A 60-year-old female patient presents to the ED with gradual-onset right-sided thigh and hip pain.…
Paracetamol Toxicity during Pregnancy
A pregnant female accidentally takes an excess of paracetamol. This SAQ explores the important considerations taken when managing acute paracetamol poisoning during pregnancy.…
Head Injury in Children – PEM Induction
Walk into any Emergency Department in the country and you are bound to find at least one child waiting to be seen with a head injury – it’s one of the commonest presenting complaints to ED…
Penile Fracture
A 50-year-old man with a penile injury – this is one you mustn’t miss!…
Acute Red Eye
Management of the most common ophthalmic presentation: the acute red eye.…
Gastric Volvulus in an Elderly Patient
A frail elderly female is brought to the emergency department following two episodes of coffee-ground vomit.…
Cervical Artery Dissection
This session reviews the clinical presentation and investigation of cervical artery dissection.…