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Oxygen Prescribing for Acute Illness

A 62-year-old patient presents to the ED complaining of shortness of breath. You are asked to prescribe their oxygen.
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A Broken Heart

A recently widowed 60-year-old female presents with chest pain and shortness of breath. Her ECG features diffuse ST elevation.
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My eyes have gone funny!

A 65-year-old man presents with sudden-onset flashes and floaters in his right eye over two days, maintaining good vision and no pain, prompting assessment for vitreoretinal pathology.
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Doctor, Eye have a Problem

A patient presents with sudden, painful loss of vision. Can you diagnose the problem and provide emergency management?
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Collapsed Neonate

A neonate that suddenly collapses leaves us all with dread.
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Emergency Treatment of Anaphylaxis

1 in 300 people will experience anaphylaxis at some point in their lives. RCUK anaphylaxis guidelines provide an updated consensus for the recognition and management of anaphylaxis in all age groups.
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Childhood Forearm Injury

Buckle / Torus fractures in children
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Breathlessness and Oedema: A Diagnostic Challenge in the ED

A 55-year-old presents with bilateral lower leg pitting oedema and heart failure symptoms. Unremarkable initial investigations lead to digging deeper for the correct diagnosis.
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Epistaxis on Warfarin

A bleeding patient on anticoagulation
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Drug Overdose

A young woman, who walks into the ED with Propranolol overdose, suddenly collapses.
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Bronchiolitis

This SBA will test your knowledge about bronchiolitis – are you ready?
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Wound Management

Test your knowledge on managing an animal bite!
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An Electrical Storm

A 68-year-old man with a prior history of MI is pre-alerted to hospital as having had a pre-syncopal episode with an abnormal ECG.
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Haemetemesis in Anticoagulated Patient

A 75-year-old gentleman on an anticoagulant, presents with haematemesis to the emergency department, in shock. How will you manage this patient?
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Retinal Detachment

A 58-year-old man presents to your Emergency Department with a headache and right sided vision loss.
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Feeling weak

An elderly woman attends with a vague history of weakness and confusion but an unremarkable clinical examination. How will you proceed?
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Post Chemotherapy Seizure

A 40-year-old male with B-cell lymphoma presents to the ED complaining of lethargy, dry mouth and generalized weakness. The patient has no fever. How will you manage this?
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Painful Knee

A patient presents to the Emergency Department with a painful swollen knee. He cannot move his knee fully and has a fever.
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Silver Shock

An elderly lady is brought to your ED by ambulance after falling at home. She is hypotensive, tachypnoeic and agitated. She has a wound on her right shin with no active bleeding.
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Another Chest Pain

You think this is a regular day at the office and a very straight forward case, but is it?
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Eye Pain and Redness

A 55-year-old woman presents with acute left eye pain, blurred vision, redness, headache and halos around lights that started when she was watching TV in a dimly lit room.
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Management of Diverticulitis in the Emergency Department

A 60-year-old man presents with 2 days of constant left lower quadrant pain, low-grade fever, and loose stools. He is haemodynamically stable with mild C-reactive protein elevation and no peritonism.
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Seeing Double

A woman with diplopia needs your help. Can you identify the cause and include or exclude any red flags?
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Acute Opioid Toxicity

A young adult presents with an opioid overdose, how will you manage this patient?

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