How will you manage the absconding patient?
How will you manage the absconding patient?
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.
A 45-year-old male, with unresolved cyanosis despite oxygen, presents with pleuritic chest pain and recent PE history. Arterial blood gas was performed to assess underlying hypoxemia.
This is the third in a series of Emergency Casebooks from the virtual hospital CFN General, with key learning points for staff working in an Emergency Department
The relative incidence and mortality of shock varies greatly depending on the population and the cause.
This module covers the assessment and management of shock in the emergency department.
A 30-year-old male wakes up with rapid heartbeat and shortness of breath. Explore the urgent management and underlying cause of this unexpected tachycardia case.
You’ve just arrived for your first ED shift, excited to be allocated to resus. The red phone rings. A 45-year-old female, amitriptyline overdose, P120, BP85/45, GCS 5, ETA 5 minutes.
Children (mainly), and even some adults, like to put a range of objects in any orifice they can find. Once they’re in, they come to us in the ED to sort out whether they’re really there, and how best to extract them.
A 56-year-old gentleman can’t bend his knee after 3 days of increasing pain and swelling.
The session covers important aspects of the transport and exchange of carbon dioxide.
The module covers important aspects of the transport and exchange of carbon dioxide.
A 74-year-old male presents to the ED with a recent history of painless flashes and floaters in his right eye.
A 70-year-old female presents to the ED with non-traumatic calf pain and swelling over the last 24 hours. She is completely unable to weight-bear.
At the 8am departmental handover, you discuss a 69-year-old man with COPD who presented two hours earlier with SOB.
A 45-year-old woman presents to the ED with a history of headache persisting for the past 4-5 days, accompanied by an inability to open her left eye for the past day.
12% of ED attendances are related to domestic abuse. How will you identify & manage these cases?
This module provides information on Pancreatitis, including the diagnosis, basic science, assessment and management.
This module provides information on Pancreatitis, including the diagnosis, basic science, assessment and management.
This month we discuss the PERC 35 Rule | Glucocorticoid-induced adrenal insufficiency | and New Online content