A minor injury with a major complication: applying clinically orientated anatomy in the ED.…
Don’t stick your neck out
Don’t trip yourself up in patients with trauma and neurological symptoms.…
Acute Rhabdomyolysis
Rhabdomyolysis is the breakdown of muscle fibres resulting in the release of muscle fibre cell contents into the bloodstream.…
Acute Rhabdomyolysis
This session looks at the causes, identification and treatment of rhabdomyolysis in the ED.…
Cervical Spine Injury
Cervical spine injuries are rare but potentially devastating. Immobilisation of the cervical spine on the slightest suspicion of injury is recommended by most resuscitation courses.…
Assessing and Clearing the Cervical Spine
Cervical spine immobilisation is the most commonly performed procedure in pre-hospital care…
Fractured Neck of Femur
Fracture of the neck of the femur is a common injury and the incidence is increasing although it is not always easy to diagnose. The majority of fractures are caused by falls in the elderly and the fr…
Fractured Neck of Femur
The risk factors for a fractured NOF can simplistically be divided into risk factors for falls and risk factors for osteoporosis.…
Help, I can’t feed myself!
A 46-year-old female patient presents as she keeps falling over and is no longer able to feed herself…
Decreased Conscious Level in a Child
The child with decreased consciousness is a common problem with many possible diagnoses and potentially high mortality and morbidity…
Can you put your finger on it?
An elderly lady presents with a fall and subsequent left upper limb pain.…
Falls
Falls can be significantly debilitating and distressing events for patients. The elderly form an increasing proportion of the general population, meaning falls are a common presentation to the emergen…
PEG Fracture
An 85 year old lady is brought in by ambulance after an unwitnessed fall in a care home complaining of right wrist pain. She has obvious facial bruising.…
EMJ Podcast December 2019
This month we have What do older people want from emergency care, Determination of the best early warning scores to predict clinical outcomes of emergency department patients, Is Seniority of Emergenc…
Black & Blue
The unspoken disease of inflicted, non-accidental injury in children.…
Hips Don’t Lie
A low impact fall in a 64-year-old woman has caused her medial thigh pain. What injuries has she sustained?…
Another faller!
Another faller presents to your emergency department. Confused and smelling of alcohol. What will you do? How can you avoid missing the common pitfalls?…
July 2017
The new podcast for July 2017…
RCEM Manchester Day 3
RCEM ’15 in Manchester has been a sell out! For those of you that weren’t lucky enough to be here, here’s what’s been going on on Day 3!…
Why the fall?
A 72-year-old lady presented to a Minor Injuries Unit following head injury. On examination, evidence of suspected skull base fracture was found and she was therefore referred to the Emergency Departm…