The relative tranquility of the night shift thus was about to be broken. I swallowed my apprehension and walked outside.
The relative tranquility of the night shift thus was about to be broken. I swallowed my apprehension and walked outside.
A 19-year-old man presents to the emergency department with paranoid delusions.
A 16-year-old is brought in by ambulance to your resuscitation room with a reduced level of consciousness and then starts to see monkeys everywhere. What’s going on?
A 21-year-old student presents to ED distressed and agitated, pacing up and down. He looks terrified and is acutely suicidal.
This module focuses on the assessment and initial management of psychiatric patients in the ED.
This module focuses on the assessment and initial management of psychiatric patients in the emergency department.
This month we have Parental concern and critical illness in children | Acute behavioural disturbance in the ED (Part Two) | Clearing paediatric C-spine with CT imaging only | New Online.
Alcohol withdrawal is a common presentation to UK EDs and patients can present significant management challenges to clinicians.
How will you manage your absconding patient with suicidal intent who has gone ‘absent without leave’?
This blog is something a bit different. Based on real Coroner’s cases, we’ve pulled out some critical decision moments, so you can work your way through the patient journey and decide what you would do.
This month we have Pre-hospital Thoracotomy Outcomes | Acute behavioural disturbance in the ED (Part One) | Systematic review of resuscitative hysterotomy | New Online
How will you manage the absconding patient?
SBA session on the RCEM recommendations about the management of an aggressive patient with acute behavioural disturbance (ABD). How to keep your patient, your colleagues, and yourself safe!
A 63-year-old man, who speaks only Hindi, is brought to the ED due to acute confusion and aggressive behaviour.
A patient with moderate learning disability is brought in by their father because he has suddenly become aggressive.
How to recognise and manage patients with Acute Behavioural Disturbance in order to support their emergency care whilst maintaining safety of the patient, staff, and others.
As emergency medicine clinicians you’ll be used to patients with behaviours that are really challenging. Did you know that there’s an actual definition of this?
This module identifies the clinical features of acute behavioural disturbance (ABD) and covers the initial assessment and management of patients with ABD in the Emergency Department.
This session identifies the clinical features of acute behavioural disturbance (ABD) and covers the initial assessment and management of patients with ABD in the ED.
In this blog, we’ve collated all our infographics, and some pictures, around mental health in the ED. We hope that the pictures will spark your curiosity, and you’ll delve further into the original resource for further learning.