Acute, severe headache is a common symptom of patients presenting to the emergency department. In 90% of cases, the cause will be one of the primary headache syndromes.…
Acute, severe headache is a common symptom of patients presenting to the emergency department. In 90% of cases, the cause will be one of the primary headache syndromes.…
A 29-year-old farmer presents to your local ED with a bite mark over the upper left calf.…
Serratus anterior plane block can be used as multimodal analgesia for anterior lateral rib fractures in the trauma patient. This module outlines the ultrasound guided technique.…
Serratus anterior plane block can be used as multimodal analgesia for anterior lateral rib fractures in the trauma patient. This module outlines the ultrasound guided technique.…
At TERN Education we are keen to help you learn how to critically evaluate the evidence base behind your practice. In order to do this, we are producing monthly virtual journal club modules on RCEMLea…
The aim of procedural sedation is to relieve a patient’s anxiety towards and facilitate their cooperation for a potentially painful procedure…
A 70-year-old female presents to the emergency department with non-traumatic calf pain and swelling over the last 24 hours. She tells you the pain has steadily got worse and she is now completely unab…
While working in the minors area of a busy teaching hospital’s ED, a somewhat flustered junior doctor approaches you to confess her actions.…
A 42-year-old man presents to the Emergency Department at 4am with a severe headache. He is pacing up and down and says that he has been woken up by a similar headache every night for the last 4 night…
There is nothing that defines medicine more than the need to “make it better”, and so, nailing analgesia is such a fundamental part of being a practitioner, especially in children.…
“Toni is a 35 year old lady who attends the emergency department regularly with chest pain. Nothing seems to make it better, and her troponin is always normal. You wonder if there is a potential…
This session focuses on the knowledge, skills, facilities and equipment required to perform safe emergency department procedural sedation. Commonly used sedation agents and some of their qualities are…
January 2018…
The December 2017 Podcast…
Welcome to the new format podcast. From now on you’ll be getting a monthly podcast with lots of different segments to try and cover as much as we possibly can…
We’re back with some more papers to whet your critical appraisal and knowledge hungry appetite…
New in EM September 2016…
In the past, paediatric lacerations that required sutures often required admission and a general anaesthetic for wound closure…