A young female footballer presents with a swollen, painful knee after being tackled. She cannot mobilise. Examination reveals a large effusion.…
FAST scan
The use of FAST scan in the ED…
AAA Ultrasound
Ultrasound in AAA decision making…
More Dental Emergencies
This session aims to give a brief overview of dental emergencies that may present in A&E, including aetiology, diagnosis and management…
You can’t see my hand?
21-year-old female with headache and visual disturbances…
What’s that funny noise?
A 17-year-old presents with acute respiratory distress and a biphasic stridor.…
A worm in my vomit!
A 25-year-old man with no significant past medical history presents to the Emergency Department with his wife complaining of a one day history of vomiting and diarrhoea.…
Beat the Leak
A 45-year-old man presents to the emergency department with sudden onset central chest pain…
What do these waves tell me?
Watching the capnography waves…
Simply Red: Rash Decisions in Resus
A 67-year-old man with a history of psoriasis presents in hypovolaemic shock with a 3 day history of malaise, oliguria and widespread erythema.…
Complicated Chest Pain
A rarer cause of pleural effusion…
Too Hot to Walk
A young male attends with fever and other symptoms. He also has weakness of his lower limbs is unexpected in rela-tion to his other presenting complaints.…
Gynae – Induction
Gynae presentations to the emergency department are fairly common, yet fill everyone with dread. The management is similar to any other medical problem…
Palliative Care in the ED – Induction
A patient attends majors, with sepsis. You overhear someone saying theyre palliative care, so we dont need to do anything…
Ortho – Induction
With the advent of urgent care centres, your exposure to orthopaedics won’t be what it used to be. However, if you follow some of the basic tips here, your orthopaedic surgeons and patients will…
ECG – Induction
It’s a phrase you’ll come to know well. Especially, you’ll find, if you’re sitting at a certain desk or in a certain area…
An Introduction – RCEM Induction
The emergency department is a unique working environment. It will throw you in the deep end, testing your diagnostic and risk juggling skills, whilst being the most supported environment you’re …
Trauma – Induction
When you tell people you work in the ED, they invariably ask you for your great stories but they also ask you for help and advice when needed…
The ED Rota… and rest! – Induction
You are about to embark on one of the most challenging rotas of your career. I mean, lets be honest, for many of you, you will consider this the worst rota of your career…
TLOC – Induction
This is a very common but also very varied ED presentation. A triage of collapse ?cause can mean anything from a young patient having fainted in phlebotomy to an elderly patient being found on the flo…