The nurse at triage comes to speak to you: “Theres a pregnant 28year old with vaginal bleeding in the waiting room. Shes been here nearly four hours can you go and sort her out quickly please?&…
Induction – TLoC
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…
Induction – Doctor can you cast your eyes over this ECG for me?
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…
Syncope
This session is about assessment and management of patients presenting with transient loss of consciousness to the emergency department…
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Parasyncope?
A 47 year old nurse with a 2 week history of headaches and lethargy presented with a pre-syncopal episode at work. She was pale and sweaty before the collapse and had slow speech during the episode…
Local Anaesthetics
Local anaesthetics are amongst the most widely used drugs in any emergency department. It is, therefore, essential that doctors from emergency medicine are able to use these drugs safely and effective…
Worryingly Slow Pulse
A 78 year old woman presents with palpitations, some light-headedness and general malaise to the ED…
Syncope
Neurological causes of syncope include basilar artery migraine, vestibular dysfunction and vertebrobasilar ischaemia.…
Is the K OK?
A 60 year old man presented to the emergency department with a 1 week history of increasing lethargy, intermittent tingling in both arms and palpitations…