This module covers decompression illness, explaining the scientific principles behind its pathophysiology, identifying major risk factors for its development and exploring the critical role of oxygen in early management. It also provides an overview of other important diving-related conditions.
This session covers decompression illness, identifying major risk factors for its development and exploring the critical role of oxygen in early management. It also provides an overview of other important diving-related conditions.
A 34-year-old female presents to the emergency department with a 3-day history of left ear pain, without discharge or tinnitus.
A lady presents with ear pain not improving with antibiotics from her GP, is there something else going on ear?
Children (mainly), and even some adults, like to put a range of objects in any orifice they can find. Once they’re in, they come to us in the ED to sort out whether they’re really there, and how best to extract them.
A 15-year-old boy presents to the Children’s Emergency Department following a single episode of bleeding from his ear.
This guideline sets out the standards for timeliness of provision of analgesia and provides an approach to the delivery of analgesia for adult patients presenting to the ED.
A painful ear in a febrile child
Ear trauma is a common presentation to the Emergency Department. Whilst generally simple to manage, the consequences of ear trauma have the potential to impact patients’ day-to-day lives significantly
To the ENT novice there are a baffling number of terms that refer to problems with the ear… “otitis media” is that acute? Or suppurative? Or secretory? And where does glue ear fit into all of this and what are grommets anyway?!