Imagine it’s 2am and the Red Phone rings…. “A 26-year-old male, fallen off motorcycle, in traumatic cardiac arrest”. Your heart races, you’re excited, but you feel way out of your depth. You kno…
Paced
A patient is bradycardic. They might need pacing. They might not.…
Pacing in the ED
Our curriculum mentions pacing, and we all think that we know all about that as we’ve got ALS… right? Some of our brief discussions on twitter highlighted that pacing can be more complicated than ALS …
TERN Top Papers January 2022
This month’s edition of TERN’s top papers series comes from a small team of higher EM trainees in the North West. It looks like we will all experience some rainy days this winter, so we hope you enjoy…
Revise your Resuscitation: The Drowning Child
You are working on a rapid response vehicle (RRV) as a part of a PHEM-rotation and attend a ‘red’ call: “3-year-old cardiac arrest. Unsupervised child fallen into outdoor pond. Not breathing. Not resp…
TERN Top Papers November 2021
TERN Top Papers for November 2021. This month’s topic is Training and Wellbeing…
Do Not DNA CPR
DNA CPR confuses many but is a very important area to get right.…
TERN Top Papers August 2021
The aim of TERN Top Papers is to highlight the top emergency care related papers for emergency physicians, keeping them abreast of the latest practice-changing studies. This month’s topic is diagnosti…
Rapid Sequence Inductions in the Emergency Department
Intubation forms an integral role in the treatment of the critically ill or injured patients presenting to the ED with a failed or at-risk airway.…
Rapid Sequence Inductions in the Emergency Department
Intubation forms an integral role in the treatment of the critically ill or injured patients presenting to the ED with a failed or at-risk airway.…
July Virtual Journal Club – A practical risk score for early prediction of neurological outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: MIRACLE2
At TERN Education we are keen to help you learn how to critically evaluate the evidence base behind your practice. In order to do this, we are producing monthly virtual journal club modules on RCEMLea…
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.…
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.…
DNA CPR in the ED
DNA CPR or “do not attempt resuscitation” decisions are confusing to many. If discussed sensitively and correctly, they make a huge huge huge immeasurable difference to the hospital stay of the patien…
After the heart restarts – post-arrest care in the Emergency Department
A patient arrives in resus following an out of hospital cardiac arrest. He had a background of obesity and type II diabetes.…
Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine – Level 1 Instruction
This document covers FAST, Assessment of the Abdominal Aorta and IVC, Vascular Access and Echocardiography in Life Support.…
The Devil in the Dosset Box
A 94-year-old female with dementia was referred to the ED from her residential home. She had a 2 day history of anorexia, lethargy and loose stools 3 times a day.…
Emergency Surgical Airway
56-year-old presents with a bleeding base of tongue tumour. You cannot intubate and you cannot ventilate. How do you proceed?…
Post Cardiac Arrest: Care of the ROSC Patient
Emergency Physicians must be confident managing the post-cardiac arrest patient with return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) to continue high quality care once initial resuscitation succeeds.…
An Unusual Cause of Cardiac Arrest
You receive a pre-alert for a 30-year-old female who had chest pain this morning.…