At TERN Education we are keen to help you learn how to critically evaluate the evidence base behind your practice. In order to do this, we are producing monthly virtual journal club modules on RCEMLea…
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.…
Common Childhood Exanthems
This session describes the most common childhood exanthems that present to emergency departments…
Status Epilepticus
Status epilepticus, a state of prolonged, uncontrolled seizures, is a common emergency department presentation that is potentially life-threatening. Clinicians need an awareness of the existence, and …
Status Epilepticus
Status epilepticus (SE), a state of prolonged, uncontrolled seizures, is a common emergency department (ED) presentation that is potentially life-threatening.…
Bubbles on the Brain
A 34-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of left ear pain, without discharge or tinnitus.…
Decreased Conscious Level in a Child
The child with decreased consciousness is a common problem with many possible diagnoses and potentially high mortality and morbidity. It is therefore important for the emergency physician to rapidly …
Decreased Conscious Level in a Child
The child with decreased consciousness is a common problem with many possible diagnoses and potentially high mortality and morbidity…
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.…
Ketamine Kids Procedural Sedation
A 4-year-old girl fell whilst playing in the playground on a metal slide and sustained a 3 cm open wound to her left cheek and upper lip.…
Keeled Over Kid
A young girl collapses suddenly at school and presents to your ED with an altered level of consciousness – what could have happened?…
When thunder roars, go indoors!
Learning about lightning injuries…
Major Head Injury – An Unusual Presentation
A 66yr old male 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…
Lightning Learning
During Summer storms, lightning strikes can cause fatalities …but what happens to the survivors?…
Sun, Sea and Altitude Emergencies – Part 2
You move to your second base as some divers have surfaced and are getting ready to pack up. You notice one of them is swaying left and right and stops due to complaints of pain in his back. He has sta…
Sun, Sea and Altitude Emergencies – Part 1
Big city medicine can sometimes be tricky to tick the box that says “Environmental Emergencies” in the RCEM curriculum. But a day in the life of a doctor living in more “outdoor̶…
Boxing, and Facial Injuries
Last April saw the England Boxing National Amateur Championships held in Nottingham. As a member of the England Boxing Medical Committee I was invited to sit ringside for the tournament as the Ringsid…
A Patchy History
A previously fit and well, fully immunised 10-month-old is brought into your ED with a 3 hour history of drowsiness…
Did I strain too much?
A 30-year-old previously healthy male presents to your Emergency Department with syncope while on a treadmill.…