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Seizures

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

A 17-year-old man attends your ED having taken an unconventional shortcut on his way home. Check out this SAQ on Drowning.
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Ectopic pregnancy

RIF pain and PV bleeding - history and treatment.
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Testicular pain – SAQ

You are about to see two patients both of whom have testicular pain
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Consent

Principles of consent in view of recent case law
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Lightning Strike Injury

Learning about lightning injuries
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Orbital Cellulitis

There's more than meets the eye in this case of orbital cellulitis.
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The Limping Child (Perthes disease)

Investigating a child presenting with a limping gait to your Paediatric Emergency Department.
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Lightning Learning – Struck by Lightning

During Summer storms, lightning strikes can cause fatalities …but what happens to the survivors?
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Supratherapeutic Paracetamol Overdose

This case describes a therapeutic excess of paracetamol and explores the further management of complications in an unintentional paracetamol overdose.
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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.
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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.
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Penile Fracture

A 50-year-old man with a penile injury - this is one you mustn't miss!
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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.
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Amlodipine Overdose

How will you manage haemodynamic instability in a patient following a calcium channel blocker drug overdose?
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Tracheostomy Emergency in the ED

Pre-alert; Adult male with long term front of neck access is en route in acute respiratory distress, what are your next steps?
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The Unexpected Cardiac Arrest

A patient having a large laceration sutured suddenly goes into cardiac arrest.
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Cardiac Arrest in Pregnancy

Management of Cardiac arrest in advanced pregnancy.
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Knee Aspiration – What the patient needs to know

You see a gentleman with a swollen knee. You decide he needs a Knee Aspiration.
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A Real Pain in the Neck

A 67-year-old man, with a background of type II diabetes, presents with pain in the left side of his neck, lower back pain and numbness in his left arm.
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Abdominal Pain – SAQ

A 14-year-old boy attends the Paediatric ED with a 2 day history of worsening colicky central abdominal pain.
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Stridor

An 18-month old boy is brought in to the ED by his grandmother with a cough, mild constitutional upset and increasing stridor for approximately 12 hours. He is previously well and immunised up to date
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The Aspirin Overdose

A 52-year-old male electrician presents in the ED with a complaint of abdominal pain.
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Trauma: The Road Traffic Collision

A 54-year-old driver of a pick-up truck is involved in a head on collision with a stationary vehicle at approximately 30mph.

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