A patient presents with a 7 day history of pain and swelling to the right side of the face. What is the diagnosis and how will you investigate it?
A patient presents with a 7 day history of pain and swelling to the right side of the face. What is the diagnosis and how will you investigate it?
A 7-year-old girl presents with an acute, painful hot knee and a red-purple non-blanching rash.
Guideline summary
30-word description of the Guideline How to diagnose and manage adults with severe sore throat, including life-threatening supraglottitis / epiglottitis
Children commonly present in the ED with stridor. Stridor is a sign of upper airway obstruction. An ED physician must be able to diagnose, initiate treatment, appropriately investigate, anticipate and manage complications.
Children commonly present in the ED with stridor – a sign of upper airway obstruction. An ED physician must be able to diagnose, initiate treatment, appropriately investigate, anticipate and manage complications.
Refresh your knowledge on this latest outbreak.
A 36-year-old male presents with a 5-day history of sore throat, fever and dehydration.
A 4-year-old girl presents to the Emergency Department with a four-day history of fever and sore throat.
A 34-year-old man presents to the ED feeling unwell for the past three days. He has a hoarse voice and increasing neck pain.
A patient presents with suspected aspiration but turns out to have something even more concerning.
Is love in the air? …or is it the kissing disease?
It was only a kiss, how did it end up like this? A teenage boy got more than he was bargaining for after an innocent kiss with his girlfriend but do you know enough about the “kissing disease” to aid in his management?
Group A streptococcus/ Grp A Strep or GAS in short – What is it? Why is it happening? Why is it important now? Why the invasive increase in infection rate?
A 79-year-old male presents with sudden onset shortness of breath, stridor and respiratory failure.
This session covers the assessment, investigation and management of the patient who presents to the ED with a sore throat. It also covers the more serious conditions that can present in this way.
This session covers the assessment, investigation and management of the patient who presents to the ED with a sore throat. It also covers the more serious conditions that can present in this way.
Febrile children compete for the most common non-traumatic paediatric presentation in the ED, causing concern for parents worldwide. Your mission: to find the source.
A 38-year-old male presents with a continuous cough, shortness of breath and fevers. Over the past 2 days he has had intense generalised muscle aches, fatigue, loss of taste and smell and a reduced appetite.
Train hard, fight easy: Managing a cardiopulmonary arrest in a patient with suspected COVID-19
A 16-year-old boy attends the ED complaining of a 1 day history of an itchy rash on the trunk and upper arms.
Exploring the role of lung ultrasound in patients with COVID-19 in the Emergency Department.