This module covers burns assessment and management in the Emergency Department.
This module covers burns assessment and management in the Emergency Department.
A 55-year-old presents with bilateral lower leg pitting oedema and heart failure symptoms. Unremarkable initial investigations lead to digging deeper for the correct diagnosis.
A 49-year-old man is brought to the ED by ambulance after waking this morning with severe vertigo.
A 39-year-old man presents with a 4–5-day history of fever, rigors, general malaise, and worsening shortness of breath.
A 45-year-old man attends the ED 3 days after a motorbike accident.
A 48-year-old man presents with fever, chest pain and fainting episodes. He is normally fit and well.
This module provides an understanding of the underlying pathophysiology and causative agents, discusses how to identify and assess the patient with methaemoglobinaemia, and provides an evidence-based guide to treatment.
A 10-year-old boy presents with fever, malaise, and rapidly spreading painful skin lesions with oral and eye involvement, following a recent course of antibiotics.
A bleeding patient on anticoagulation
A 55-year-old man presents to the emergency department with a distended abdomen and a past history of Crohn’s disease.
A keen fisherman attends following a flu-like illness. He has a small head wound and is now jaundiced. One sign brings it all together, can you spot it?
A 56-year-old lady with a severe learning disability presents to ED with abdominal pain and distension, suspecting her last bowel movement was 2 weeks ago.
A young woman, who walks into the ED with Propranolol overdose, suddenly collapses.
A 31-year-old man presents to the ED after falling off a wall into a bush.
Fabricated or induced illness (FII) is a form of child abuse. Recognition of FII is frequently difficult and subsequent management is complex.
This SBA will test your knowledge about bronchiolitis – are you ready?
A 34-year-old G2P1 IVF patient at 40+5 weeks presents with severe epigastric pain, bilateral leg swelling, hypertension and proteinuria. Despite initial management, she subsequently collapses and develops cardiac arrest, requiring on-site resuscitative hysterotomy.
It is Saturday night and your next patient is a 28-year-old man who has been assaulted earlier that evening.
A 26-year-old right hand dominant man is brought in to the ED.
A 13-year-old girl presents to the Paediatric ED with a 48 hour history of nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.