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Acute Behavioural Disturbance in Emergency Departments – Guideline

How to recognise and manage patients with Acute Behavioural Disturbance in order to support their emergency care whilst maintaining safety of the patient, staff, and others.
  • Clinical Case

Burning Up

An 89-year-old female presents with an unrecordable temperature.
  • Learning Session

Acute Behavioural Disturbance

This module identifies the clinical features of acute behavioural disturbance (ABD) and covers the initial assessment and management of patients with ABD in the Emergency Department.
  • SBA

Deep Blue Sea – Decompression Sickness

A case of breathlessness secondary to deep sea illness.
  • Reference

Cardiac Arrest in Special Circumstances: Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest

This session concentrates on patients with actual or impending cardiopulmonary arrest.
  • Clinical Case

Chest Pain in a Diver

An 18-year-old male attends your Emergency Department with left sided pleuritic chest pain.
  • SBA

Major Incident Management

An explosion has occurred at a nearby chemical plant and your emergency department is the nearest healthcare facility. Are you ready to handle this major incident?
  • Learning Session

Trek Tragedy!! Review on Lyme Disease

Lyme disease is a spirochete infection transmitted by ticks. ED presentation, although rare, is important to identify to enable early treatment
  • Clinical Case

COOL —– RUSH

A 33-year-old patient is brought in unresponsive. She is hypothermic, hypotensive, bradycardic, hypoglycaemic and has unequal pupils.
  • Learning Session

Radiation Exposure

This session provides an overview of the basic science of ionising radiation exposure for the ED physician as well as an approach to the investigation, treatment and management of a patient exposed to radiation.
  • Reference

Radiation Exposure

Radiation can be subdivided into two categories - ionizing and non-ionizing, both of which have an effect on human tissue
  • Reference

Hypothermia and Frostbite

The physiological effects of hypothermia mean that the management of cardiac arrest requires an altered approach.

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