Myocarditis is an uncommon disease but it has a significant morbidity and mortality…
Causes and Management of Myocarditis
Myocarditis is an acute infectious or immunologically mediated syndrome causing inflammation of the heart muscle.…
Haem and the Heart
An 84-year-old gentleman attends ED with a 48 hour history of tight central chest pain on exertion.…
Atypical Chest Pain
A 19-year-old male presents to the emergency department with a 24 hour history of chest pain.…
A Partial Eclipse of the Heart
A 79-year-old female attends ED by ambulance after having 12 hours of central, pleuritic chest pain which radiated to the back across her shoulders.…
Ultrasound in shocked patients
Ultrasound in shocked patients. This competency is specifically for Higher Specialty Trainees and is in the curriculum. It is also useful for interested Core Trainees…
Seek and Ye Shall Find!
A 57-year-old female with Chest pain, dyspnoea, abdominal Pain and syncopal episodes.…
Beat the Leak
A 45-year-old man presents to the emergency department with sudden onset central chest pain…
Complicated Chest Pain
A rarer cause of pleural effusion…
June 2020
This month is in 2 parts. Part 1 has LoDED Study, Trauma Top 5 Papers, Neurosurgical Emergencies. Part 2 has New in EM – Peripheral pressors, VTE Guidelines, New in EM – Thirst guided IV f…
Hypertensive Emergencies
A hypertensive emergency is defined as the clinical situation in which there is a marked elevation of blood pressure (BP) associated with acute or progressive end organ damage, e.g. cardiovascular, re…
Heart beats fast
A patient books in stating that his “heart is beating fast”. Your receptionist thinks he ‘doesn’t look right’ and brings him through to you in the main department…
Sudden collapse with chest pain and shock
A 67-year-old man is brought into the emergency department with collapse associated with chest pain…
The heart of the matter
A 62-year-old woman presents with chest pain, fever, and systolic murmur.…
Supraventricular Tachycardias
This session is designed to help you understand the principles, basic physiology, and clinical features of supraventricular tachycardias. It is written from a clinical standpoint, with testing based o…
Supraventricular Tachycardias
Supraventricular Tachycardias can be divided into three pathophysiologicaly distinct conditions.…
HEARTsperanto: A common language for chest pain risk stratification
In 1887, Dr Ludwik Zamenhof, an ophthalmologist, developed an artificial language incorporating the linguistic features from the major Indo-European languages.…
An Atopic Heart
A 35-year-old previously healthy male presents to the emergency department complaining of chest pain and breathlessness following an unknown bite…
Did I strain too much?
A 30-year-old previously healthy male presents to your Emergency Department with syncope while on a treadmill.…
Aortic Dissection
About 1 year ago, Pam, a 62-year-old, recently retired teacher, fit, well & active, suffered sudden onset of severe ‘ripping’ pain in her chest & upper abdomen…