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Paediatric Trauma Anatomy – Easy as AcBC

The alert phone goes: the ambulance team are bringing in a 2 year old girl who has fallen down a flight of stairs
  • Journal Club

Journal Club: Is there a better nerve block available to manage pain in acute hip fractures?

  • Clinical Case

When CT doesn’t compute

Elderly woman with sudden hip pain and inability to weight-bear. Negative CT, but MRI reveals occult sub-capital fracture. Diagnostic uncertainty in the ED.
  • Blog

Minor Injuries – Wrist Injuries

Our hands are important. The sensory information they collect and their ability to co-ordinate complex movements allow us to explore and physically interact with our environment.
  • SBA

The Invisible Grip – Non-Fatal Strangulation

A young woman presents to your emergency department with a neck injury after being assaulted. She experienced dyspnoea, near loss of consciousness and urinary incontinence, raising concern for a significant underlying injury despite minimal external findings.
  • Journal Club

Journal Club: Does transfusion with whole blood improve mortality in trauma? 

  • Clinical Case

A fracture that didn’t end well

A RTC patient sustains a right leg fracture and develops a stroke while applying a plaster requiring thrombectomy and hemicraniectomy.
  • Clinical Case

When Urinary Retention Isn’t Retention

A young man presents to the ED with lower abdominal pain and inability to void after a minor fall.
  • Podcast

RCEM AC Megamix April 2026

In this RCEM AC megamix Rob chats to Andrew Lockey | Chelcie Jewitt | Michael Barrett | Rebecca Whiticar and lots more about topics being covered at the RCEM AC 2026
  • Clinical Case

A Crack in Everything

A 78-year-old man on clopidogrel presents after a fall with rib fractures, pulmonary contusion and haemothorax; ED erector spinae plane block has provided effective analgesia and improved oxygenation.
  • Podcast

March 2026

This month we have New in EM - Ibuprofen plus opiates in paediatric injury | Guidelines for EM - Sexual Assault in the ED | Maddy Dodds - Sexual Assault in the ED
  • Learning Session

The Acutely Injured Knee

Ten SAQs on knee injuries. Each SAQ has a knee x-ray image to interpret and questions on ED management of the injury.

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