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  • Clinical Case

Sudden Collapse: The Hidden Hazards of Pulling Pints

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.
  • Clinical Case

Texting Trouble

A healthy 25-year-old presents to the ED complaining she cannot text on her phone.
  • Clinical Case

Brain dead?

A 51-year-old who presents profoundly unconscious.
  • Clinical Case

Unravelling the Mysterious Weakness

A 51-year-old man presents with acute onset of central chest pain accompanied by nausea, vomiting and paralysis of all four limbs.
  • Podcast

September 2024

This month we have 1. NIV for RSI Preoxygenation (PreOxy Trial), 2. NICE Guidelines for Meningitis, 3. TERN SHED Study and 4. New Online.
  • SAQ

Working from home

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.
  • Clinical Case

Papa Smurf has a Seizure

A 40-year-old man had a seizure witnessed by his wife; she reports that he was unresponsive and his limbs were shaking.
  • Clinical Case

Headache and Vomiting

A 16-year-old patient with headache and vomiting with a past medical history of dysmenorrhoea.
  • SAQ

Just add a pinch of salt

A patient starts seizing in your ED, standard management is commenced but the cause and management may not be so straightforward.
  • Podcast

July 2024

This month we have: Blood biomarkers and algorithms and fever duration in febrile infants, Guidelines for EM - Sickle Cell Disease (Part Two), Absorbable vs non-absorbable sutures in facial lacerations and New Online.
  • Guideline

Management of Acute Presentations of Sickle Cell Disease in the Emergency Department – Guideline

How to manage acute sickle cell disease. Focus on early analgesia, warmth, hydration, and oxygenation. Recognition and management of specific complications. Criteria for admission and discharge.
  • Guideline

Suspected Nitrous Oxide Toxicity in the ED – Guideline

How to identify, investigate, and manage nitrous oxide toxicity.

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