An 81-year-old woman attends ED from a Nursing Home with a reduced GCS, tachycardia, tachypnoea, hypotension, hypothermia and hyperglycaemia.…
Trek Tragedy!! Review on Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is a spirochete infection transmitted by ticks. ED presentation, although rare, is important to identify to enable early treatment…
Young People Don’t Get Strokes?
It’s 5am. A 26-year-old is blue lighted to ED with slurred speech and limb weakness.…
COOL —– RUSH
A 33-year-old patient is brought in unresponsive. She is hypothermic, hypotensive, bradycardic, hypoglycaemic and has unequal pupils.…
Cardiac Arrest in Pregnancy
Management of Cardiac arrest in advanced pregnancy.…
Pulmonary Embolism
Assessment and management of the patient presenting in the Emergency Department with a pulmonary embolism.…
A Broken Carpal Bone
A handy reminder that not all carpal bone fractures involve the scaphoid bone.…
Less than one percent
A 43-year-old lady presents with left thigh pain and swelling.…
Wheelie Bad Fall
A 15-year-old twists his ankle while skateboarding.…
SOB in Resus
Shortness of breath is a common occurrence for COPD patients, and were used to putting them on non-invasive ventilation. What happens when we cant?…
Patient in Labour
Whilst managing labour and birth in the ED is an uncommon occurrence, there are many reasons why a mother may present to the ED when in labour.…
What a wheeze
A child attending Emergency Department with a wheeze…
Lid Laceration
An 80-year-old woman sustains a lid-laceration in an RTC. How should this be managed?…
Unstable Angina and Non-STEMI: Risk Assessment and Management
This module covers the risk stratification and management of unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.…
With a Pinch of Salt
A 46-year-old gentleman with a known history of alcohol dependence re-attends to the ED with a reduced GCS. Is he just drunk?…
A Crush Injury
A delayed presentation after trauma with an increasing joint swelling, what gives?…
Multiple Sclerosis
This module describes the presentations, pathophysiology, management and treatment options for multiple sclerosis relevant to ED.…
Knee Aspiration – What the patient needs to know
You see a gentleman with a swollen knee. You decide he needs a Knee Aspiration.…
What is this lump in my neck?
A 52-year-old male complains of a mass at the base of his neck following a fall from his mountain bike.…
Trauma Quiz – CPD Conference
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