A 20-year-old presents to the ED after taking about 20 tablets of an unknown medication.
A 20-year-old presents to the ED after taking about 20 tablets of an unknown medication.
How to identify and manage acute opioid toxicity. Titrate IV naloxone to target RR >10 or SpO2 >92%.
A young person presenting with recurrent UTI
A 52-year-old male electrician presents in the ED with a complaint of abdominal pain.
Patient with combined beta-blocker and calcium channel blocker overdose with hypoglycemia, hypotension and bradycardia.
This module provides an understanding of the underlying pathophysiology and causative agents, discusses how to identify and assess the patient with methaemoglobinaemia, and provides an evidence-based guide to treatment.
This session provides an understanding of the underlying pathophysiology and causative agents, discusses how to identify and assess the patient with methaemoglobinaemia, and provides an evidence-based guide to treatment.
An 83-year-old male is pre-alerted to your emergency department following an intentional overdose of one of his prescribed medications.
The relative tranquility of the night shift thus was about to be broken. I swallowed my apprehension and walked outside.
It’s Friday evening and you’re at work in the ED (where else would you rather be??). Jack is a 15-year-old boy who has taken an overdose of paracetamol a couple of hours ago. He texted his girlfriend soon after and she called an ambulance.
A young adult presents with an opioid overdose, how will you manage this patient?
A 46-year-old male presents to the ED with 3 months refractory headache and subacute forehead swelling (unknown duration) with acute periorbital oedema.
You receive a standby call for red-flag sepsis – Initial pattern recognition triggers the pathway. Shortly after arriving you experience ‘pattern interrupt’ and ponder new evidence in the treatment of this condition.
An adolescent male presents with abdominal pain, vomiting and bradyarrhythmia after ingesting foxglove plant leaves with an intention to harm himself.
A 38-year-old man reattends obtunded and narcosed after being treated for a DVT the day before.
You’ve just arrived for your first ED shift, excited to be allocated to resus. The red phone rings. A 45-year-old female, amitriptyline overdose, P120, BP85/45, GCS 5, ETA 5 minutes.
A 46-year-old man is brought by ambulance to the ED. He has been drinking alcohol all afternoon and, according to collateral from his wife, he has taken ‘some tablets’ two hours prior the presentation.
This month we have an ASC Megamix 2024.
A 51-year-old who presents profoundly unconscious.
Accidental iron overdose in a young child.