A 67-year-old man is brought into the Emergency Department with a history of fainting on the way to the bathroom in the morning.…
Another angry drunk
It’s Friday night, a 19-year-old male who alleges he’s been assaulted is shouting / being aggressive in the waiting area. The triage nurses asks you to discharge him…
Breathlessness
Dyspnoea is an overall term used to describe an unpleasant awareness of increased respiratory effort and will be used synonymously with “breathlessness” in this session.…
Breathlessness
This session is about the assessment and management of patients presenting with breathlessness to the emergency department…
To drain or not to drain?
A 67-year-old man presents via ambulance with shortness of breath and fever. He has recently completed his first 2 week chemotherapy course for auricular Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC), administered vi…
Induction – Risk Stratification and Venous Thromboembolic Disease
Author: Indy Karpha, Charlotte Davies, Heenal Raichura / Editor: Liz Herrievan / Codes: CC5, HAP6 / Published: 09/12/2020 Suspected VTE is a common presentation in the ED, yet investigation and manage…
Bloody Cough
A 22-year-old South Asian male presents with 2 episodes of haemoptysis on a background of anorexia, weight loss and a dry cough for 2 months.…
Lightning Learning
During Summer storms, lightning strikes can cause fatalities …but what happens to the survivors?…
What do these waves tell me?
Watching the capnography waves……
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.…
Palliative Care in the ED – Induction
A patient attends majors, with sepsis. You overhear someone saying “they’re palliative care, so we don’t need to do anything…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 9
Another week, another top 5! The volume and quality of evidence continues to grow with the team screening over 1,500 studies. This week’s top 5 contains policy shaping big hitters and an additional +1…
A Sickle for your Thoughts
A 77-year-old man with a one week history of cough (white sputum with specks of blood), shortness of breath and wheezing.…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 7
Another week, another top 5! The team has sorted through thousands of papers…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 8
Another week, another top 5! The team faced well over 2,000 papers this week, along with a couple of big-hitters, which sneaked themselves in…
The Crown
A 38-year-old male presents with a continuous cough, shortness of breath and fevers. Over the past 2 days he has had intense generalised muscle aches, fatigue, loss of taste and smell and a reduced ap…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 6
This week’s flash update is the distilled outputs of a global output of more than 1,700 papers a week…
Breath of Death?
A 61-year-old female with a history of sarcoidosis is admitted to your department in acute respiratory distress…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 4
The RCEM Top 5 COVID-19 papers are compiled from expert recommendations, weekly systematic searches, and contributions from the FOAMeD community…
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Journal Club The Director’s Cut #3
Authors: Charlie Reynard, Govind Oliver, Sarah Langston, Iain Beardsell, Justin Morgenstern, Anisa Jafar / Editor: Govind Oliver, Charlie Reynard / Codes: CAP6, CAP9, HAP29, HAP6 / Published: 21/05/20…