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.
This blog is something a bit different. Based on real Coroner’s cases, we’ve pulled out some critical decision moments, so you can work your way through the patient journey and decide what you would do.
A 38-year-old man reattends obtunded and narcosed after being treated for a DVT the day before.
Your patient has a dislocated shoulder. Is Penthrox a suitable analgesic option?
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.
How to manage acute sickle cell disease. Focus on early analgesia, warmth, hydration, and oxygenation. Recognition and management of specific complications. Criteria for admission and discharge.
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.
As emergency medicine clinicians you’ll be used to patients with behaviours that are really challenging. Did you know that there’s an actual definition of this?
A 53-year-old man presents to the ED with a 12-hour history of impaired sensation to the right side of his face, right arm and right upper torso.
A 27-year-old male cyclist presents with an isolated fractured left femur, having been hit by a car.
This month we have a brand new Co-host, Liz Farah. And the topics on discussion are Mortality in older patients boarding overnight in the ED, Hypertension in the ED and Cauda Equina Syndrome, Opioids for back pain & New Online
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.
The use of FI blocks in the emergency department has been shown to provide effective pain relief in the acute setting and to reduce the use of opiate analgesia.
The use of FI blocks in the emergency department has been shown to provide effective pain relief in the acute setting and to reduce the use of opiate analgesia.
This month Noel and Stephen discuss paediatric fractures.
An uncircumcised young man has sought emergency medical attention with penile pain & bleeding after coitus.