30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
A 39-year-old male presents to the ED with a 3-day history of bilateral peripheral limb paraesthesia, dysphagia, ataxia and diplopia.
A 70-year-old male is brought to the ED by ambulance complaining of dizziness and generalised weakness following a fall.
A 65-year-old male presents to the emergency department by ambulance with an episode of collapse.
How to identify, investigate, and manage nitrous oxide toxicity.
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
A 10-year-old girl presents with lethargy, vomiting, headaches and an unsteady gait. She collapsed at home a few hours prior to arrival at your ED.
Vertigo is a common problem which affects 5% of adults in any one year. Consequently, it is a frequent presenting problem to the ED
Vertigo is a false perception, experienced by the patient, of rotation or movement of the external world or of the individual in space.
A 20-year-old female was brought into the ED as a pre-alert call. She had been found unresponsive in her room at a psychiatric unit.
Transient Ischaemic Attacks
Transient Ischaemic Attacks
A 45-year-old male presents to the ED with a 3-day history of progressive weakness in his right upper and lower limbs. On examination there’s observed ataxia and ocular involvement only had developed within the last 24 hours.
GBS is now thought to be a group of phenotypically similar disorders. Degeneration of the axon can occur as well as demyelination of the nerve sheath.
Describing the classical presentations of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)
Outlining the epidemiology and pathophysiology of stroke
A 35-year-old presents with paraesthesia and weakness in both lower limbs.
This module will focus on secondary causes of acute severe headaches that are likely to present to an emergency department.
A 46-year-old female patient presents as she keeps falling over and is no longer able to feed herself
We all work in the Emergency Department because we think there’s going to be lots of “emergencies”