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I can see Monkeys everywhere

A 16-year-old is brought in by ambulance to your resuscitation room with a reduced level of consciousness and then starts to see monkeys everywhere. What’s going on?

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Toxicology – Induction

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.

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Acute Behavioural Disturbance (ABD)

SBA session on the RCEM recommendations about the management of an aggressive patient with acute behavioural disturbance (ABD). How to keep your patient, your colleagues, and yourself safe!

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Carbamazepine – A Toxic Shock

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.

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Ecstasy

Class A drug in the UK – illegal to possess, give away or sell. Possession can be punished with 7 years in jail.

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Spill the Tea

A 32-year-old man presents to the ED with RUQ, tachycardia and diarrhoea after starting a new herbal supplement for weight loss.

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Toxicology

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.

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Amlodipine Overdose

How will you manage haemodynamic instability in a patient following a calcium channel blocker drug overdose?

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