The forbidden forest is home to many dangerous creatures, where an encounter with even the smallest ticks can leave a big impact.…
A breathless boy with bruising
A teenage boy is referred to you by his GP with nose bleeds, bruising and low energy levels…
A Spider Bite
An 18-year-old female presents to the ED of your local hospital during a night shift with a spider bite over the thigh. She is feverish and tachycardic.…
Thrombotic but Thrombocytopenic
A pregnant lady presents to your department with confusion, diarrhoea, fever, and a purpuric rash.…
Cardioversion Conundrum
A 48-year-old gentleman presents at 3am to the emergency department having woken at 2am with palpitations.…
Time for PIMS-TS
Understanding paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (PIMS-TS)…
Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS-TS)
Understanding paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (PIMS-TS).…
February 2020
This month we have Belfast CPD 2019 Tracheostomy | NICE Pneumonia | New in EM YEARS in pregnancy…
It’s ALL very vague
A young child presents to your Emergency Department with non specific upper respiratory tract symptoms. You’ve seen him before on a previous visit.…
Black & Blue
The unspoken disease of inflicted, non-accidental injury in children.…
Lemons and Lymes
What went wrong for a child who picked up Lymes’ instead of limes?…
Dyspnoea and Chest Pain in a Young Man
17 year old, tall thin male presents with sudden onset of sharp, stabbing bilateral chest pain, worse on inspiration and most severe under left scapula…
Not So Hip
A 6 year old boy with a background of sickle cell disease presents to the emergency department with two days of worsening right hip pain and unable to weight bear…
Epistaxis in a child
A 7 year old girl is brought into the emergency department by her mother on a busy Saturday afternoon after experiencing several nose bleeds at home over the preceding few hours…
Management of the Anticoagulated Patient
With the possibility of catastrophic bleeding seen in the over-anticoagulated patient, be it spontaneous or following trauma…
Paediatric Trauma – Minor head injury…..probably
For those of you who weren’t able to attend and for those of you who want to listen again to some of the great talks, this month we’ll be bringing you some of the superb plenary sessions on the podcas…
Absolute Risk Reduction
A paper about the effect of tranexamic acid for patients who have suffered major trauma…