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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.

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Breathlessness

This module covers the assessment and management of patients presenting with breathlessness to the ED.

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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.

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The ALS Algorithm

RCEM, Advanced Life Support, ALS, shockable rhythm, non- shockable rhythm, cardiac arrest, resuscitation, resus.

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Feeling Short of Breath

Your patient’s x-ray shows his heart is almost the whole size of his chest. What’s going on? And what are you going to do about it?

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Just another ‘renal colic’

A 36-year-old gentleman presents with intermittent flank pain and has microscopic haematuria. His BP is 220/110 and he is now pain free. What would you do next?

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Decision Making in Paeds – PEM Induction

EM physicians need to be decision makers, quick thinkers and risk balancers. This is what we are good at. In fact, many will tell you that the purpose of the PEM rotation is to learn to spot the sick child

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