A 14-year-old girl presented at the ED after falling into a tree and impaling her cheek with a large twig, just below her right eye, obscuring her vision.…
Eye Don’t Believe It
You are on the ED observation unit morning ward round. Your next patient is a 25-year-old man, admitted during the night for “head injury observations” following an alleged assault.…
In Your Face
A 30-year-old professional martial artist sustained a direct blow to the left side of his face during training.…
Mandibular and Temporomandibular Joint Injuries
Identify the anatomical factors that contribute to the pathophysiology of mandibular and temporomandibular joint injury…
Mandibular and Temporomandibular Joint Injuries
Fractures of the mandible are the second most common facial fracture seen in the ED after nasal fracture…
Nobody Nose – Punched on Face
A 35-year-old male presents to the ED with a history of being punched on the face, with a nasal bone injury, bleeding and deformity. Discussion on evaluation, examination, imaging and specialist refer…
Zygomatic Complex and Nasal Injury
Anyone who has ever worked in an ED on a Friday night knows that facial injuries are a common presentation…
Zygomatic Complex and Nasal Injury
This session covers the assessment, investigation and management of injuries to the bones of the midface; the zygoma, zygomatic arch, maxilla, orbit and nose.…
Cranial Nerves One to Six
Cranial nerve injuries are important clinical signs, which alert the examiner to intracranial pathology. This session will look at the more common traumatic and medical causes of cranial nerve injury…
Name that Broken Bone
This 18-year-old patient was allegedly punched by a stranger during a night out.…
Ouch my jaw
It’s a busy Friday night in the emergency department and another facial injury presents following an alleged assault to the left jaw.…
Popping Out
It’s a busy Friday night in the emergency department and another facial injury presents following an alleged assault to the right eye.…
Blind as a Bat
When a simple trip makes you as blind as a bat.…
Facing it again!
It’s a busy Saturday night in your emergency department and another patient with a facial injury presents following an alleged assault.…
Facing it
Another night out and another facial injury.…
FRCEM Primary Paper 5
FRCEM Primary Examination Single Best Answer…
EMJ Podcast April 2019
The first podcast in partnership with the EMJ…
Trauma ibook – an introduction
This iBook is structured according to the ATLS 10th edition chapters. Why have we done this when ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) is often considered “archaic” and not to be recommended…
Another Saturday Night Facial Injury: Am I Managing These Patients Correctly?
It is Saturday night and your next patient is a 28 year old man who has been assaulted earlier that evening. He is accompanied by his friend who witnessed the assault…
Eye infections
Most external eye infections pose little risk to life or vision. Orbital cellulitis is the exception…