A patient attends majors, with sepsis. You overhear someone saying “they’re palliative care, so we don’t need to do anything…
A Personal Problem – The Case of the Swollen Scrotum
A 45 year old man attends the Emergency Department with a presenting complaint of a “personal problem”…
Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the Emergency Department
“Toni is a 35 year old lady who attends the emergency department regularly with chest pain. Nothing seems to make it better, and her troponin is always normal. You wonder if there is a potential…
FRCEM Primary Paper 5
FRCEM Primary Examination Single Best Answer…
Nothing to Declare
A patient presents to the Emergency Department suspected of having illicit concealed drugs. This SAQ explores the clinical management, combined with the ethical and medicolegal aspects of their care.…
Just a bleeding hernia
72 year old gentleman with 3 weeks of intermittent abdominal pain originating from a ‘bleeding umbilical hernia’. His pain was now constant and 8/10 in severity.…
RCEM Blogs Book 1
Managing Parkinson’s in the ED, Flaoting in the Face of Danger, MaxFax injuries in the E, and Paediatric Heart Murmurs & what to do with them…
Managing Parkinson’s in the ED
Your patient is a 70 year old lady with a history of type 2 diabetes and Parkinson’s disease, for which she is on a number of medications…
June 2016: New in EM
Summer is coming which means it’s time to sit in a dark room while the sun blazes staring at your computer screen reading the latest literature……
Constipation
A topic to muddy the FOAMed waters; constipation, a problem for many patients in which their care could be dramatically improved. Find out how in this podcast…
Through the Wormhole
A 79-year-old man presents to the emergency department with persistent right inguinal pain and intermittent left flank pain over the past week.…
Oops, What is Happening?
A 67-year-old alcoholic presented with anuria for one day and the next day is passing fluid…
Bowel Obstruction
Intestinal obstruction is an important cause of the acute abdomen, accounting for up to 5% of emergency admissions to surgical services.…