A 29-year-old woman attends your ED for medical clearance before further treatment by her Mental Health team. She has a seizure before you review her.
A 29-year-old woman attends your ED for medical clearance before further treatment by her Mental Health team. She has a seizure before you review her.
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
Alcohol withdrawal is a common presentation to UK EDs and patients can present significant management challenges to clinicians.
A 2-year-old presents with a fever and a 2 minute unresponsive episode. How will you manage them?
The paramedics arrive with a 3-year-old boy who has had two seizures today. He has known developmental delay but has no history of seizures previously
This month we have: Surgery for Haemorrhagic Stroke | RCEM Best Practice Guidelines for Acute Pain | Laura Howard and Gregory Yates – BestBETs | New Online
A patient starts seizing in your ED, standard management is commenced but the cause and management may not be so straightforward.
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
A man collapses in the bathroom. What was the cause? Is he safe to go home?
Learning about lightning injuries
You take handover for a patient in resus. They have presented with new onset of focal seizures. You start treatment but the convulsions are worsening. What will you do?
This month we discuss:
Using lactate to diagnose seizures, Non-fatal strangulation, Impact of familiarity on performance and New Online.
Functional Seizures aren’t managed with benzodiazepines – but how do you tell functional seizures from epileptic ones?
This blog article aims to consolidate several resources and anecdotal practice around functional seizures.
The seizing child is truly a scary thing to behold. If you work in the Paediatric ED, you will, at some stage, come across a child who has had a seizure, is recovering from a seizure, or is actively seizing
Abdominal pain is a reasonably common presentation in paediatrics-increasing as the child gets older
This month we have BET 2: Is keeping the eyes shut while fitting predictive of a psychogenic cause for seizures? And initial focused assessment with sonography in trauma versus initial CT for patients with haemodynamically stable torso trauma
I remember the excitement in the room at the European Society of Emergency Medicine (EuSEM) conference in September 2018 as the room waited to hear the results of the EcLiPSE trial
The seizing child is truly a scary thing to behold. If you work in the Paediatric ED, you will, at some stage, come across a child who has had a seizure, is recovering from a seizure, or is actively seizing
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is defined by the World Health Organisation as consuming more than 40g/day of alcohol for males and 30mg/day of alcohol for females