A 50-year-old female presents to the emergency department after drinking antifreeze.…
Teaching the Basics: Blood Gases
Teaching is a huge part of emergency medicine. Whether you’re preparing for the FRCEM OSCE or some shopfloor supervision of medical students, you need to be able to explain things to others that…
If you go down to the woods today…
A 36-year-old female, with a previous history of asthma, was brought to the emergency department at 1840hrs on a Saturday afternoon…
A Rapid Decline in Respiratory Function
A 62-year-old lady presents with a 10-hour history of increasing shortness of breath and sharp, right-sided chest pain.…
DKA – Induction
When I 15 years old I was admitted to hospital with DKA and diagnosed with diabetes…
SOB – Induction
It’s 5am, the pre-alert phone rings. The ambulance service are bringing in a patient with acute difficulty in breathing…
Papa Smurf has a Seizure
A 40-year-old man had a seizure which was witnessed by his wife; she reported that he was unresponsive and all limbs were shaking…
Unwell Child
A 12-month-old diabetic girl presents generally unwell and vomiting…
A Tired Heart
A 73-year-old gentleman with a background of heart failure, atrial fibrillation and severe aortic stenosis presents to your Emergency Department with shortness of breath…
Methaemoglobinaemia – True Blue
Methaemoglobinaemia is a life-threatening cause of hypoxia and death but is reversible with early recognition and treatment…
Blue Sunday
A 23-year-old woman is rushed into Resus following a collapse in a local night club.…
Nifty NIPPV
A 72-year-old gentleman who has not seen a doctor in decades presents with dyspnoea and acidosis with increased work of breathing.…
Gin and Ketonic
A 45-year-old man attends the department with a 48 hour history of nausea and vomiting. He also has a diffuse upper abdominal pain…
Hereditary Angioedema. To Swell and Back
A 24 year old woman presents to the emergency department (ED) with increasing lip swelling over the past hour…
He looks a bit blue doctor
A 45 year old man is brought to ED after his neighbours call an ambulance, concerned that he looks ‘unwell’. The paramedic crew bring him to resus since he appears cyanotic with sats of 82…
A Blood Gas Brain Freeze
You are asked to see a 51-year-old lady who has been taken to the resus room. The ambulance crew tell you she has taken an overdose 5 hours previously…
New Years Quiz for Emergency Clinicians
Happy 2019! Your RCEMLearning blog team is so excited that 2019 is finally here, and as we couldn’t control our excitement, we’ve released an extra early blog to celebrate…
Carbon Dioxide Transport in Blood
Familiarise you with the important aspects of the transport and exchange of carbon dioxide…
Arterial Blood Gas Analysis
This session is about the evaluation of arterial blood gases in the emergency department…
Oxygen in Human Physiology
This session will review the transfer of oxygen from the atmosphere to the body’s tissues…