Regular attender is brought to ED with low GCS with suspicion of intoxication in cold winter season.…
Acute Kidney Injury
This session aims to illustrate, through a series of clinical cases, the common presentations and complications of acute kidney injury (AKI).…
Feeling Blue: When a good night turns bad
A woman is found unresponsive in a takeaway at midnight. She is hypotensive, drowsy and has low oxygen saturations. She is unable to give a history and there is nobody with her. Can you help her?…
Common Childhood Exanthems
This session describes the most common childhood exanthems that present to emergency departments…
Procedural sedation in Emergency Medicine 2020
Sedation is a routine aspect of emergency care. The aim is clear: make the procedural experience as comfortable as possible for your patient, whilst ensuring that your practice is safe.…
Procedural Sedation in Emergency Medicine 2020
Discussing the indications for procedural sedation…
Carbamazepine – A Toxic Shock
A 46-year-old man is brought by ambulance to the Emergency Department. He has been drinking alcohol all afternoon and according to collateral from his wife he had taken ‘some tablets’ two hours ago.…
ECG Changes in an Unconscious Patient
ECG changes in an unconscious patient…
‘Too Much of a Good-dipine’
How will you manage haemodynamic instability in a patient following a calcium channel blocker drug overdose?…
Too Much Pain
A 50-year-old female presents with acute confusion and vomiting…
Paediatric Toxicology Considerations
Presentation of children to the emergency department by concerned parents after a potential ingestion of a substance is common…
More than just a DVT
A 38-year-old gentleman reattends obtunded and narcosed after being treated for a DVT the day before.…
A Fishy Tale
From somewhere under the sea, sun… and food container.…
Not Sweet Enough
A 63-year-old female with a background of type I diabetes mellitus, chronic pancreatitis and COPD presents to the ED with confusion and hypoglycaemia.…
Breathe it in: Nebulised Naloxone
Management of opiate overdose is simple. ABCDE assessment, support of oxygenation and respiration as necessary, and antagonise with naloxone if toxicity is severe. Everyone has their own take on it. B…
Salicylic Stress
Paul, a 52 year old electrician, has been in your department for three and a half hours with a presenting complaint of abdominal pain…
September 2019
This month we have Guideline CVA part 2 | Paper 1 – New in EM cervical artery dissection | Belfast CPD 2019 Acute Ophthalmology | New in EM: NACSTOP trial – early cessation of NAC in parac…
He looks a bit blue doctor
A 45 year old man is brought to ED after his neighbours call an ambulance, concerned that he looks ‘unwell’. The paramedic crew bring him to resus since he appears cyanotic with sats of 82…
The Bittersweet Cocktail
A 45-year-old female attended the Emergency Department after taking an intentional antifreeze overdose.…
The ALS Algorithm
This session covers the Advanced Life Support (ALS) algorithm (2010), which provides an evidence-based template for your clinical skills…