The aim of procedural sedation is to relieve a patient’s anxiety towards and facilitate their cooperation for a potentially painful procedure
The aim of procedural sedation is to relieve a patient’s anxiety towards and facilitate their cooperation for a potentially painful procedure
This module focuses on the knowledge, skills, facilities and equipment required to perform safe procedural sedation. Commonly used sedation agents and some of their qualities are described.
Pain is probably the most common reason for people to attend the ED. Getting it right isn’t easy though.
Visiting hospital can be scary at any age. Facilitating a positive hospital experience for children is important because many of them will require further attendances and treatments in their lifetime. We don’t want this to be a frightening place for them.
Explore your understanding further of how hypnosis can help in Emergency Medicine
Visiting hospital can be scary at any age. Facilitating a positive hospital experience for children is particularly important as many of them will require further hospital attendances and treatments in their lifetime. We don’t want this to be a frightening place for them.
This guideline sets out the standards for timeliness of provision of analgesia and provides an approach to the delivery of analgesia for adult patients presenting to the ED.
In the past, paediatric lacerations requiring sutures often required admission and a general anaesthetic for wound closure. This blog looks at how we can provide timely, cost effective and acceptable management in the ED that avoids this paradigm.
A 27-year-old male cyclist presents with an isolated fractured left femur, having been hit by a car.
This month we discuss: ‘You may think that the consultants are great, and they know everything, but they don’t’, And then a systematic review called ‘Why is pain management so difficult in the ED.’
This session covers the pathophysiology of pain, the use of pain assessment tools, typical analgesic agents used in the ED.
This session covers the pathophysiology of pain, the use of pain assessment tools and typical analgesic agents used in the ED.
A patient having a large laceration sutured suddenly goes into cardiac arrest.
Nerve entrapment syndromes are a group of conditions in which peripheral nerves are damaged, through compression or repeated trauma.
Nerve entrapment syndromes are a group of conditions in which peripheral nerves are damaged, through compression or repeated trauma.
“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 cause. Read on to find out that there is more to IBS than abdominal pain.”