SAQ Pneumothorax? At the 8am departmental handover, you discuss a 69-year-old man with COPD who presented two hours earlier with SOB.
SAQ Fractures of the Midfoot and Forefoot 10 X-rays in SAQs and 5 in MCQs to test your knowledge of fractures of the midfoot and forefoot.
SAQ Tired purple legs A 7-year-old girl presents with an acute, painful hot knee and a red-purple non-blanching rash.
SAQ Blue Baby Spell A 21-day-old term baby presents to your emergency department in respiratory distress and appears dusky blue.
SAQ Wound Management Explore the NICE guidance on wound management of dog bites (NICE CKS and NICE Guidance)
SAQ The Shocked Neonate – SAQ A 22-year-old lady delivers a 36-week-old baby unexpectedly at home. The baby was initially pink with an Apgar of 9, and a birth weight of 7lbs.
SAQ The Twitching Tot The paramedics arrive with a 3-year-old boy who has had two seizures today. He has known developmental delay but has no history of seizures previously
SAQ The Collapsing Child A 10-year-old boy is brought into hospital after a fainting episode at school.
SAQ Emergency Surgical Airway 56-year-old presents with a bleeding base of tongue tumour. You cannot intubate and you cannot ventilate. How do you proceed?
SAQ Acute Asthma Exacerbation: It ain’t easy bein’ wheezy! You are called by a resident doctor to help manage a 22-year-old male brought into the ED resuscitation area, presenting with wheeze, cough and shortness of breath.
SAQ The Swirl sign, you must act now! Mr X is a middle aged gentleman who was assaulted with a house brick whilst riding a push bike.
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.
