You think this is a regular day at the office and a very straight forward case, but is it?
You think this is a regular day at the office and a very straight forward case, but is it?
An 84-year-old presents with shortness of breath, chest pain, and appears peri-arrest.
An 84-year-old gentleman attends ED with a 48-hour history of tight central chest pain on exertion.
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.
An 81-year-old presents following a collapse. His blood tests from triage included a troponin level. It’s significantly elevated. What next?
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.
This module covers the assessment and management of patients presenting with breathlessness to the ED.
This month we have Low vs High Dose Dexamethasone for Migraine, Thoracic aortic aneurysm, Transfusion thresholds in MI and New Online.
This learning session focuses on the understanding, recognition and management of acute RHF.
This Reference focuses on the understanding, recognition and management of acute RHF.
A 40-year-old man is brought in by ambulance at 2am. He looks visibly anxious and is clutching his chest. The paramedics think it’s ACS.
A 50-year-old male attends with chest pain that has now resolved. He wants to know if he can go home.
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
This month we look at a paper dealing with Performance of a prehospital HEART score in patients with possible myocardial infarction a prospective evaluation and also one on methocarbamol vs diazepam in management of acute lower back pain.
Unstable Angina and Non-STEMI: Risk Assessment and Management
This module covers the risk stratification and management of unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.
This module is largely concerned with the cardiac causes of ST segment elevation unrelated to acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
RCEM, Advanced Life Support, ALS, shockable rhythm, non- shockable rhythm, cardiac arrest, resuscitation, resus.
Is this another ‘Normal Sinus Rhythm (NSR) or could the T-waves be telling us more about a not-so-rare syndrome in this 69-year-old patient with chest pain?
A patient with a bee sting complains of chest pain and has ECG changes, what are you thinking?