This session covers the recognition and management of potentially difficult airway scenarios, including appropriate equipment preparation and strategy development for failed intubation.
This session covers the recognition and management of potentially difficult airway scenarios, including appropriate equipment preparation and strategy development for failed intubation.
This module covers the recognition and management of potentially difficult airway scenarios, including appropriate equipment preparation and strategy development for failed intubation.
A 17-year-old presents with acute respiratory distress and a biphasic stridor.
A patient presents with a 7 day history of pain and swelling to the right side of the face. What is the diagnosis and how will you investigate it?
A case of a 3-year-old child brought in to the ED by their mum, blue and breathless.
A young male presents with an altered voice the morning after a sparring session.
A 21-day-old term baby presents to your emergency department in respiratory distress and appears dusky blue.
A 51-year-old who presents profoundly unconscious.
Guideline summary
30-word description of the Guideline How to diagnose and manage adults with severe sore throat, including life-threatening supraglottitis / epiglottitis
Children commonly present in the ED with stridor. Stridor is a sign of upper airway obstruction. An ED physician must be able to diagnose, initiate treatment, appropriately investigate, anticipate and manage complications.
Children commonly present in the ED with stridor – a sign of upper airway obstruction. An ED physician must be able to diagnose, initiate treatment, appropriately investigate, anticipate and manage complications.
Patients with airway compromise need prompt recognition and correction using basic airway techniques.
Patients with airway compromise need prompt recognition and correction using basic airway techniques. These are essential skills for emergency physicians and will be covered in this session.
Advances in neonatal care have resulted in more ex-prems being discharged into the community, and these fragile neonates tend to be ‘frequent fliers’.
Once you have heard the classic “croupy” cough, you won’t forget it.
A 4-year-old girl fell whilst playing in the playground on a metal slide and sustained a 3cm open wound to her left cheek and upper lip.
A 78-year-old gentleman is wondering if he needs antibiotics for his worsening shortness of breath. His only past medical history is a maxillofacial tumour that was surgically resected a year ago. Is this a simple chest infection?
A patient presents with suspected aspiration but turns out to have something even more concerning.
A 2-year-old boy is brought to the ED at 2 am with noisy breathing and a barking cough.
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!