An anxious 45-year-old male presents to your Emergency Department with acute neck swelling.…
A Tricky Trache
A 60-year-old man with a tracheostomy is brought into the emergency department with acute shortness of breath…
Anaphylaxis
This session covers the assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting to an emergency department with anaphylaxis…
Anaphylaxis
Anaphylaxis is a severe, life-threatening, generalised or systemic hypersensitivity reaction characterised by rapidly developing life threatening airway, breathing and/or circulation problems usually …
A Sickle for your Thoughts
A 77-year-old man with a one week history of cough (white sputum with specks of blood), shortness of breath and wheezing.…
What did the Pistachios do ?!?!
A case of a 3-year-old child brought in to the ED by their mum, blue and breathless.…
Rapid Sequence Inductions in the Emergency Department
Intubation forms an integral role in the treatment of the critically ill or injured patients presenting to the ED with a failed or at-risk airway.…
Rapid Sequence Inductions in the Emergency Department
Intubation forms an integral role in the treatment of the critically ill or injured patients presenting to the ED with a failed or at-risk airway.…
Breath taken away while having a bun in the oven
A 21-year-old woman, 27-weeks pregnant, presents with a rare but important cause of chest pain during pregnancy.…
Hereditary Angioedema. To Swell and Back
A 24-year-old woman presents to the Emergency Department with increasing lip swelling over the past hour.…
Zygomatic Complex and Nasal Injury
Anyone who has ever worked in an ED on a Friday night knows that facial injuries are a common presentation…
Croup
Eighty percent of children presenting with an acute onset of stridor and a cough have croup…
Difficult Airway Management
While the theory contained in this session provides useful knowledge about airway management, putting this knowledge into practice requires extensive supervised practical experience.…
Difficult Airway Management
While the theory contained in this session provides useful knowledge about airway management, putting this knowledge into practice requires extensive supervised practical experience.…
Safe Sedation Procedures in Adults
The aim of procedural sedation is to relieve a patient’s anxiety towards and facilitate their cooperation for a potentially painful procedure…
Safe Sedation Procedures in Adults
This session focuses on the knowledge, skills, facilities and equipment required to perform safe emergency department procedural sedation. Commonly used sedation agents and some of their qualities are…
Emergency Surgical Airway
56-year-old presents with a bleeding base of tongue tumour. You cannot intubate and you cannot ventilate. How do you proceed?…
Basic Airway Management
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.…
Breathlessness
Dyspnoea is an overall term used to describe an unpleasant awareness of increased respiratory effort and will be used synonymously with “breathlessness” in this session.…
Breathlessness
This session is about the assessment and management of patients presenting with breathlessness to the emergency department…