You pick up the next patient to be seen. It’s a 25-year-old who has neck stiffness, and a headache, and a sore throat. The GP has sent them in as a possible meningitis patient. Where do you go from there?
You pick up the next patient to be seen. It’s a 25-year-old who has neck stiffness, and a headache, and a sore throat. The GP has sent them in as a possible meningitis patient. Where do you go from there?
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
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.
This is a section on communication skills that we have updated and reprinted from our medical student iBook.
It is a busy winter evening in the ED. The next patient to be seen is a 37-year-old female presenting with a headache, nausea and general malaise.
How to identify, investigate, and manage nitrous oxide toxicity.
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
A 76-year-old diabetic is referred with confusion and is being treated for a UTI. She is tachycardic and drowsy, is there more than sepsis?
A 35-year-old lady is brought to the ED by her husband after developing acute confusion, vomiting and unsteadiness on her feet.
An elderly lady attends the ED unaccompanied in the middle of the night. She is very confused, agitated and becomes aggressive towards the staff.
A conducted energy device (CED) ‘taser’ was discharged into a patient’s shoulder. Before this patient is taken into police custody, you’ve been asked to assess them in your ED.
The Police have brought a patient to your ED that has had a controlled energy device discharged into their upper back. You are called to assess this patient.
A 21-year-old female presents to the ED with reduced level of consciousness. According to her family, she has been unwell for the last 3-days complaining mainly of headache. After having slept all day yesterday, her mother tried to wake her up this morning but she was unawakening from sleep.
Elderly male with chronic kidney disease presents to ED department with acute onset of confusion and twitching at the end of his dialysis.
A 69-year-old gentleman presented to the emergency department with odd periods of vacancy. His wife reported that on the previous day, he had 2 episodes in which he would become suddenly pale and confused for 20 to 30 seconds.
Can you recognise acute kidney injury and prevent its deadly complications?
This session will describe calcium homeostasis. It will also examine therapeutic uses of calcium and discuss the disturbances of hypercalcaemia and hypocalcaemia.
This module will focus on secondary causes of acute severe headaches that are likely to present to an emergency department.
CNS infections are relatively rare, but form a very important differential diagnosis in the unwell patient presenting to the ED.