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?
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?
A 4-year-old presents with hypoglycaemia and all you can think of is a slushy?
Status epilepticus, a state of prolonged, uncontrolled seizures, is a common emergency department presentation that is potentially life-threatening.
Status epilepticus, a state of prolonged, uncontrolled seizures, is a common emergency department presentation that is potentially life-threatening.
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.
A 30-year-old previously healthy male presents to your Emergency Department with syncope while on a treadmill.
A 29-year-old male is working a shift behind the bar and complains of feeling dizzy. He collapses and makes a quick recovery. This is not the first time.
A 51-year-old who presents profoundly unconscious.
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.
It is a busy winter evening in the ED. The next patient to be seen is a 37-year-old female presenting with a headache, nausea and general malaise.
The child with decreased consciousness is a common problem with many possible diagnoses and potentially high mortality and morbidity.
The child with decreased consciousness is a common problem with many possible diagnoses and potentially high mortality and morbidity
Learning about lightning injuries
During Summer storms, lightning strikes can cause fatalities …but what happens to the survivors?
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 3-day-old baby girl is brought to the emergency department by her distressed mother with complaints about the baby’s shivering and lethargy.
This module describes the management of presentations of non-traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage in the ED.
You take handover for a patient in resus. They have presented with new onset of focal seizures. You start treatment but the convulsions are worsening. What will you do?
A 66-year-old man falls 6 feet from a step ladder on to concrete. On scene he is haemodynamically stable, his GCS is 15 and he is moving all 4 limbs.