An elderly lady is brought to your ED by ambulance after falling at home. She is hypotensive, tachypnoeic and agitated. She has a wound on her right shin with no active bleeding.
An elderly lady is brought to your ED by ambulance after falling at home. She is hypotensive, tachypnoeic and agitated. She has a wound on her right shin with no active bleeding.
An elderly lady presents with a fall and subsequent left upper limb pain.
Serratus anterior plane block can be used as multimodal analgesia for rib fractures in the trauma patient. This module outlines the ultrasound guided technique.
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Serratus anterior plane block can be used as multimodal analgesia for rib fractures in the trauma patient. This session outlines the ultrasound guided technique.
A 60-year-old female patient presents to the ED with gradual-onset right-sided thigh and hip pain.
A 53-year-old lady with MS presents with left hip and pelvic pain after a fall.
Another faller presents to your ED Confused and smelling of alcohol. What will you do? How can you avoid missing the common pitfalls?
An 85-year-old lady is brought in after an unwitnessed fall in a care home complaining of right wrist pain. She has obvious facial bruising.
You are asked to see a 21-year-old student who cycled into a lamp post whilst intoxicated last night.
A low impact fall in a 64-year-old woman has caused her medial thigh pain. What injuries has she sustained?
An elderly lady presents to a Minor Injuries Unit following head injury. On examination, evidence of suspected skull base fracture is found and she is, therefore, referred to the ED for radiological investigation.
The unspoken disease of inflicted, non-accidental injury in children.
A conducted energy device (CED) ‘taser’ was discharged into a patient’s shoulder. Before this patient is taken into police custody, you’ve been asked to assess them in your ED.
The Police have brought a patient to your ED that has had a controlled energy device discharged into their upper back. You are called to assess this patient.
Cervical spine immobilisation is the most commonly performed procedure in pre-hospital care
A 79-year-old male was admitted to the Clinical Decisions Unit (CDU) following a fall. Was he kept safe?
A minor injury with a major complication: applying clinically orientated anatomy in the ED.
Don’t trip yourself up in patients with trauma and neurological symptoms.
Rhabdomyolysis is the breakdown of muscle fibres resulting in the release of muscle fibre cell contents into the bloodstream.