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?
SAQ Fever in Fiji A 26-year-old Indian man presents to the ED after being unwell for 5 days complaining of weakness, fever and headache.
SAQ An Unusual Cause of Cardiac Arrest You receive a pre-alert for a 30-year-old female who had chest pain earlier that morning.
SAQ Hip Examination A 14-year-old footballer is brought in with a shooting pain in his hip developed whilst shooting at goal.
SAQ Major Head Injury – An Unusual Presentation A 66-year-old man falls 6 feet from a step ladder on to concrete. On scene he is haemodynamically stable, his GCS is 15 and he is moving all 4 limbs.
SAQ PEG Fracture An 85-year-old lady is brought in after an unwitnessed fall in a care home complaining of right wrist pain. She has obvious facial bruising.
SAQ A rare but life-threatening cause of abdominal pain A young male presents with atraumatic sudden severe abdominal pain and shock.
SAQ Spinning Around A 77-year-old man presents with sudden onset of nausea, vomiting & difficulty walking.
SAQ Midfoot Injuries You are asked to see a 21-year-old student who cycled into a lamp post whilst intoxicated last night.
