A patient presents following a viral illness with RUQ pain, vomiting and confusion.…
A patient presents following a viral illness with RUQ pain, vomiting and confusion.…
This session deals with the assessment and management of jaundice.…
Jaundice is a physical finding, which emergency physicians see in patients who may present with jaundice alone or with other complaints and symptoms.…
A set of 10 Multiple choice questions to help you revise. The Questions have been selected at random covering the curriculum.…
A set of 10 Multiple choice questions to help you revise. The Questions have been selected at random covering the curriculum.…
A lady presents with decompensated liver disease and the CT reveals more than just ascites and cirrhosis.…
What will you do when your weekend shift in the Paediatric ED turns into seeing a stream of yellow babies?…
It’s a common card to pick up in some paeds EDs – the yellow newborn. But whilst this can be an ‘easy’ one, such tiny babies can strike fear into the hearts of some!…
You receive a standby call for red-flag sepsis – Initial pattern recognition triggers the pathway. Shortly after arriving you experience ‘pattern interrupt’ and ponder new evidence in the treatment of…
You receive a sepsis pre-alert for a 39 year old female who is brought in by ambulance vomiting. She has muscle aches and a fever for 5 days. She is triaged to Covid resus. Her blood gas isn’t pretty.…
Gall Bladder, specifically gallstone, disease is the commonest abdominal complaint causing hospital admission in the developed world.…
This session covers the assessment and management of patients with acute liver failure…
Paracetamol overdose accounts for in excess of 70% of cases in the UK whereas worldwide viral hepatitis is the commonest cause.…
A keen fisherman attends following a flu-like illness. He has a small head wound and is now jaundiced. One sign brings it all together, can you spot it?…
Not one, but two teeny tiny yellow wailing babies present to your Paediatric ED! Their worried parents ask you: “why have the twins turned yellow?”…
FRCEM Primary Examination Single Best Answer…
iBook 3 including ‘Looking like Maggie Simpson’ , ‘Pem and EX PREMS’, and ‘prolonged jaundice’…
Prolonged jaundice is different from early jaundice as it is jaundice which persists for 14 days in a baby who was born at term (37 weeks or more gestation), or to 21 days in a pre-term baby born befo…
Alcohol abuse is undoubtedly a huge social problem in the UK. It is responsible for many unnecessary attendances to Emergency departments (ED) and is an enormous burden on the NHS, which must treat th…
It’s a common card to pick up in some paeds EDs – the yellow newborn. But whilst this can be an ‘easy’ one, such tiny babies can strike fear into the hearts of some!…