Anaphylaxis is a severe, life-threatening, generalised or systemic hypersensitivity reaction characterised by rapidly developing life threatening airway, breathing and/or circulation problems usually …
Anaphylaxis
This session covers the assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting to an emergency department with anaphylaxis…
Penetrating Thoracic Trauma
A 21-year old male has been stabbed outside of a night-club.…
When the colour drains from your face!
An 87-year-old female presents with episodes of transient loss of consciousness, pallor and seizure-like activity.…
PHEM Trauma
Your receive a pre-alert call from the air ambulance team who are bringing a 32-year-old male who has sustained a single stab wound to the epigastrium whilst outside a pub…
Malignant Spine Presentations
Here are two cases of oncological and palliative care emergencies that might present to the emergency department, that we should know how to treat.…
Acute Kidney Injury
This session aims to illustrate, through a series of clinical cases, the common presentations and complications of acute kidney injury (AKI).…
A Shocking Period
A young woman is seriously unwell. Her flatmates give you all the information you need. Now you must save her life. Period!…
Feeling Blue: When a good night turns bad
A woman is found unresponsive in a takeaway at midnight. She is hypotensive, drowsy and has low oxygen saturations. She is unable to give a history and there is nobody with her. Can you help her?…
Rapid Sequence Inductions in the Emergency Department
Intubation forms an integral role in the treatment of the critically ill or injured patients presenting to the ED with a failed or at-risk airway.…
Rapid Sequence Inductions in the Emergency Department
Intubation forms an integral role in the treatment of the critically ill or injured patients presenting to the ED with a failed or at-risk airway.…
Heat Related Illness
Approximately 800 heat related deaths occur annually in the UK. In 2003, a heat wave in Southern England resulted in over 1000 deaths…
Heat Stroke and Heat Exhaustion
This session covers the assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting to an emergency department with the effects of heat stroke and heat exhaustion…
Arterial Blood Gas Analysis
This session is about the evaluation of arterial blood gases in the emergency department.…
Non classic Chest Pain!
A 48-year-old man presents with fever, chest pain and fainting episodes. He is normally fit and well.…
The Apoplectic Abdomen
A 22-year-old man presented to the ED following a collapse with abdominal pain and no history of trauma. He was profoundly shocked and investigation revealed intra-abdominal haemorrhage.…
Emergency treatment of anaphylaxis – what’s new in 2021?
1 in 300 people will experience anaphylaxis at some point in their lives. The 2021 anaphylaxis guidelines provide an updated consensus for the recognition and management of anaphylaxis in all age grou…
Refractory Anaphylaxis – new concepts, new definitions and new protocols for 2021
A third of deaths from food anaphylaxis occur despite appropriate early management. Consequently, the RCUK have recognised a need for standardised algorithms for ongoing resuscitation in cases of refr…
A Time Critical Crisis
A 43-year-old man is hypotensive, tachycardic and febrile… barn door sepsis or something else? The devil is in the detail!…
Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage
Patients who suffer from an acute upper gastrointestinal (GI) haemorrhage are a common reason for presentation to the ED in the UK…