Learning about lightning injuries…
Orbital Cellulitis
There’s more than meets the eye in this case of orbital cellulitis.…
The Limping Child (Perthes disease)
Investigating a child presenting with a limping gait to your Paediatric Emergency Department.…
Lightning Learning – Struck by Lightning
During Summer storms, lightning strikes can cause fatalities but what happens to the survivors?…
Supratherapeutic Paracetamol Overdose
This case describes a therapeutic excess of paracetamol and explores the further management of complications in an unintentional paracetamol overdose.…
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.…
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.…
Penile Fracture
A 50-year-old man with a penile injury – this is one you mustn’t miss!…
Paediatric Procedural Sedation using Ketamine
A 4-year-old girl fell whilst playing in the playground on a metal slide and sustained a 3cm open wound to her left cheek and upper lip.…
‘Too Much of a Good-dipine’
How will you manage haemodynamic instability in a patient following a calcium channel blocker drug overdose?…
Everyday I’m Suctioning, Tracheostomy Emergency
Pre-alert; Adult male with long term front of neck access is en route in acute respiratory distress, what are your next steps?…
Elderly chest pain isn’t always ACS!!!
An elderly man presents with central chest pain and exertional dyspnea.…
Relieving Pain in a Fractured Femur
A 27-year-old male cyclist presents with an isolated fractured left femur, having been hit by a car.…
Ultrasound in Shocked Patients
Ultrasound in shocked patients. This competency is specifically for Higher Specialty Trainees. It is also useful for interested Core Trainees.…
I’m a little dizzy!!
A 50-year-old man was brought to the ED with ongoing dizziness, visual hallucinations and floaters in his eyes.…
Fever in Fiji
A 26-year-old Indian man presents to the ED after being unwell for 5 days complaining of weakness, fever and headache.…
An Unusual Cause of Cardiac Arrest
You receive a pre-alert for a 30-year-old female who had chest pain earlier that morning.…
Hip Examination: Apophyseal Avulsion
A 14-year-old footballer is brought in with a shooting pain in his hip developed whilst shooting at goal.…
Major Head Injury – An Unusual Presentation
A 66-year-old man falls 6 feet from a step ladder on to concrete. On scene he is haemodynamically stable, his GCS is 15 and he is moving all 4 limbs.…
ECG Changes in an Unconscious Patient
ECG changes in an unconscious patient…