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.…
March 2022
This month we have Guidelines for EM on Heart Failure with Chris & Becky & Clinical Cases with Mark & Michelle…
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 September 2021
TERN Top Papers for September 2021. This month’s topic is cardiac arrest…
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.…
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.…
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.…
Management of Post-Arrest Patients Including Prognostication
This session focusses on the emergency department care of patients post-cardiac arrest i.e. after the return of spontaneous circulation…
Management of Post-Arrest Patients Including Prognostication
This session focusses on the emergency department care of patients post-cardiac arrest i.e. after the return of spontaneous circulation.…
Slow to warm up
You receive a standby call – female found at the bottom of a mountain, her temperature is unrecordable…
What would you do?…
When thunder roars, go indoors!
Learning about lightning injuries…
Lightning Learning
During Summer storms, lightning strikes can cause fatalities …but what happens to the survivors?…
Echo in Cardiac Arrest
You are assigned to perform an echo in life support on a 45 year-old patient with a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.…