Hypoxia is common in patients presenting to the ED and can be life-threatening. The differentials are wide and include cardiac, respiratory and haematological causes…
Methaemoglobinaemia – True Blue
Methaemoglobinaemia is a life-threatening cause of hypoxia and death but is reversible with early recognition and treatment.…
Anaphylaxis Mimics
This is the case about clinical diagnosis of Anaphylaxis and life threatening and non-life threatening mimics of Anaphylaxis…
It’s not the cough that carries you off…
A 67-year-old male attends the ED following a 4 day history of worsening cough productive of green sputum, pleuritic chest pain and fever.…
A Fluid Balancing Act
An 83-year-old female presents with worsening shortness of breath over the past three days which suddenly got worse tonight.…
Tension Decision
A 6-month-old girl was brought to your emergency department by her parents with five days of gradually increasing respiratory distress.…
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.…
Arterial Blood Gas Analysis
This session is about the evaluation of arterial blood gases in the emergency department.…
Emergency treatment of anaphylaxis – what’s new in 2021?
1 in 300 people will experience anaphylaxis at some point in their lives. The 2021 anaphylaxis guidelines provide an updated consensus for the recognition and management of anaphylaxis in all age grou…
Refractory Anaphylaxis – new concepts, new definitions and new protocols for 2021
A third of deaths from food anaphylaxis occur despite appropriate early management. Consequently, the RCUK have recognised a need for standardised algorithms for ongoing resuscitation in cases of refr…
Hereditary Angioedema. To Swell and Back
A 24-year-old woman presents to the Emergency Department with increasing lip swelling over the past hour.…
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.…
Hereditary Angioedema
Patients frequently attend the emergency department (ED) with episodes of cutaneous and mucosal swelling.…
Fainting on the way to bathroom; Was it Really a Faint?
A 67-year-old man is brought into the Emergency Department with a history of fainting on the way to the bathroom in the morning.…
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…