Alcohol withdrawal is a common presentation to UK EDs and patients can present significant management challenges to clinicians…
Acute Alcohol Withdrawal
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is defined by the World Health Organisation as consuming more than 40g/day of alcohol for males and 30mg/day of alcohol for females…
Non-traumatic Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
This session describes the management of presentations of non-traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage in the emergency department.…
Induction – Chest Pain
Chest pain is one of the most common reasons adults come to an ED…
Induction – Bleeding in Early Pregnancy
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…
December 2017
The December 2017 Podcast…
Syncope
This session is about assessment and management of patients presenting with transient loss of consciousness to the emergency department…
October 2017
The new podcast for October 2017…
August 2017
The new podcast for August 2017…
July 2017
The new podcast for July 2017…
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…
Athletic ECGs
Athletes in the ED, my ED, we hardly ever see them..or so you might think…
A bit unsteady after a night out
This is the first in a series of Emergency Casebooks from the virtual hospital CFN General, with key learning points for staff working in an Emergency Department…
The Devil in the Dosset Box
A 94 years 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…
Sudden Collapse in a Young Man
A 27 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with a history of collapse whilst on a treadmill at his local gymnasium. He was witnessed to have been briefly unresponsive but there was no seiz…
Things that go bump in the night!
An 86 year old lady was admitted to the Emergency Department following a vacant episode during the night…