A teenage boy is referred to you by his GP with nose bleeds, bruising and low energy levels.
A teenage boy is referred to you by his GP with nose bleeds, bruising and low energy levels.
A bleeding patient on anticoagulation
A motorcyclist presents after a high speed collision, appearing stable with minor signs. But is everything as it seems? Would you trust the vitals or investigate further?
Understanding paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.
A young child presents to your Emergency Department with non specific upper respiratory tract symptoms. You’ve seen him before on a previous visit.
A 48-year-old gentleman presents at 3am to the ED having woken at 2am with palpitations.
As with most decisions in medicine, the decision to reverse anticoagulation depends on the risk vs the benefit of doing so for that individual patient. There are a few things to consider in particular when weighing up the two sides.
Anuric with an INR of 15 and an AKI 3 on a background of bilateral renal artery stenosis with stenting and life-long warfarin.
This month we have Belfast CPD 2019 Tracheostomy | NICE Pneumonia | New in EM YEARS in pregnancy
With the possibility of catastrophic bleeding seen in the over-anticoagulated patient, be it spontaneous or following trauma.
A paper about the effect of tranexamic acid for patients who have suffered major trauma