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Chest Drain Insertion in Adult Trauma

This session provides training in chest drain insertion. It looks at the indications for carrying out this procedure, as well as how to prepare for it, and shows a chest drain being inserted. Post-procedure management and complex cases are also covered
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Ultrasound Guided Serratus Anterior Plane Block

Serratus anterior plane block can be used as multimodal analgesia for rib fractures in the trauma patient. This session outlines the ultrasound guided technique.
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Information Sharing to Tackle Community Violence

This session describes the processes around Information Sharing to Tackle Community Violence. It also describes some of the responsibilities of emergency clinicians around confidentiality when looking after victims of violence.
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Chest Drain Insertion: A practical guide

This session will cover the practical aspects of safe insertion of chest drains.
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Decreased Conscious Level in a Child

The child with decreased consciousness is a common problem with many possible diagnoses and potentially high mortality and morbidity.
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Soft Tissue Injuries of the Hand

This session presents a logical approach to the assessment, diagnosis and management of soft-tissue hand injuries in the ED, including suggested indications for early hand specialist referrals.
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Thoracic Trauma

For each life-threatening thoracic injury this session includes: a definition and context, Clinical assessment , treatment and Key learning points.
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Mechanism of Injury

Understanding mechanism of injury is a crucial aspect of managing patients who have suffered traumatic injuries. This session aims to provide an overview on attaining this information and its translation into patient care.
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Blast Injuries

This session covers the assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting to the ED with primary blast injuries.
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Fascia Iliaca Block

The use of FI blocks in the emergency department has been shown to provide effective pain relief in the acute setting and to reduce the use of opiate analgesia.
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Radiation Exposure

Radiation can be subdivided into two categories - ionizing and non-ionizing, both of which have an effect on human tissue
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Pelvic Injuries

This session is about the assessment and complex management of patients with pelvic injury in the emergency department.
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Electrical Injuries

This session covers the assessment and management of patients presenting to ED with electrical injuries.
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Decompression Illness

Diving-related problems can present in many ways and their appropriate and timely management is essential for good outcomes and patient safety.
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Common Entrapment Syndromes

Nerve entrapment syndromes are a group of conditions in which peripheral nerves are damaged, through compression or repeated trauma.
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Elbow Injuries

Elbow injuries are common and acute elbow trauma accounts for 2-3% of all visits to the emergency department.
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Acute Limb Ischaemia

This session covers the diagnosis and initial management of a patient with acute limb ischaemia.
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Soft Tissue and Bony Injuries in Children

Paediatric injuries can be very different from those sustained in adults in many respects. This session discusses why this is the case and outlines the general principles of treating paediatric injuries.
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Cervical Spine Injury

Cervical spine injuries are rare but potentially devastating. Immobilisation of the cervical spine on the slightest suspicion of injury is recommended by most resuscitation courses.
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Surgical Management of Acute Wounds in the ED

This learning session focuses on improving the practitioners' skills and knowledge of wound management in an emergency department setting
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Left Ventricular Assist Devices in the Emergency Department

This learning module covers the basics of what an LVAD is, the common complications an emergency medical team may have to deal with, and the management of a collapsed LVAD patient.
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Coma

This session covers effective assessment, diagnosis and management of the patients presenting with coma.
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Foot Injuries

Foot injuries are common and because they affect mobility, they can have significant effects on a patient's life and so are important.
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Shoulder and Brachial Plexus Injury

In UK ED practice a large group of patients present with musculo-skeletal disorders
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Acute Lower Back Pain

Back pain is common: it is estimated that 60-80% of the population have back pain at some time during their life.
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Fractured Neck of Femur

The risk factors for a fractured NOF can simplistically be divided into risk factors for falls and risk factors for osteoporosis.
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Major trauma – Burns

Burns are a major public health problem globally. In addition to physical damage, they can leave a long lasting psychological and social impact.
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Abdominal Trauma

The assessment of abdominal trauma is notoriously difficult. Serious intra-abdominal injuries may initially appear to be innocuous and localisation of symptoms is variable.
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Soft Tissue and Skin Injury Descriptions in the Emergency Department

This aims to provide the learner with an overview of common types of skin and soft tissue injuries, how best to accurately describe these, and considers the mechanism most likely to be responsible.
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Foot Pain

Foot and ankle problems commonly present in primary care and may also present to orthopaedic surgeons, podiatrists, rheumatologists and sports medicine clinics.