SAQ Down the Troponin Rabbit Hole An 81-year-old presents following a collapse. His blood tests from triage included a troponin level. It’s significantly elevated. What next?
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.
SAQ Pinch me, thumbs up and give me four An 8-year-old girl is brought to the ED by her mother after having fallen from a climbing frame.
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.
SAQ Canal No.5 A 17-year-old man attends your ED having taken an unconventional shortcut on his way home. Check out this SAQ on Drowning.
SAQ The Limping Child (Perthes disease) Investigating a child presenting with a limping gait to your Paediatric Emergency Department.
SAQ Lightning Learning – Struck by Lightning During Summer storms, lightning strikes can cause fatalities …but what happens to the survivors?
SAQ Supratherapeutic Paracetamol Overdose This case describes a therapeutic excess of paracetamol and explores the further management of complications in an unintentional paracetamol overdose.
SAQ Echo in Cardiac Arrest You are assigned to perform an echo in life support on a 45-year-old patient with a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
SAQ Paracetamol Toxicity during Pregnancy A pregnant female accidentally takes an excess of paracetamol. This SAQ explores the important considerations taken when managing acute paracetamol poisoning during pregnancy.
SAQ Paediatric Procedural Sedation using Ketamine 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.
SAQ ‘Too Much of a Good-dipine’ How will you manage haemodynamic instability in a patient following a calcium channel blocker drug overdose?
SAQ Everyday I’m Suctioning, Tracheostomy Emergency Pre-alert; Adult male with long term front of neck access is en route in acute respiratory distress, what are your next steps?
SAQ Elderly chest pain isn’t always ACS!!! An elderly man presents with central chest pain and exertional dyspnea.
SAQ Relieving Pain in a Fractured Femur A 27-year-old male cyclist presents with an isolated fractured left femur, having been hit by a car.
SAQ Ultrasound in Shocked Patients Ultrasound in shocked patients. This competency is specifically for Higher Specialty Trainees. It is also useful for interested Core Trainees.
SAQ I’m a little dizzy!! A 50-year-old man was brought to the ED with ongoing dizziness, visual hallucinations and floaters in his eyes.
SAQ Head Injury Another faller presents to your ED Confused and smelling of alcohol. What will you do? How can you avoid missing the common pitfalls?
