A 4-year-old presents with hypoglycaemia and all you can think of is a slushy?…
Painful Joint Swelling
A 56-year-old gentleman cant bend his knee after 3 days of increasing pain and swelling.…
Carbon Dioxide Transport in Blood
The module covers important aspects of the transport and exchange of carbon dioxide.…
Retinal Detachment
A 74-year-old male presents to the ED with a recent history of painless flashes and floaters in his right eye.…
Hard to diagnose something you haven’t seen before
A 70-year-old female presents to the ED with non-traumatic calf pain and swelling over the last 24 hours. She is completely unable to weight-bear.…
An Inverted Eversion Injury
An elderly lady, who has fallen on grass bank, presents with an obvious deformity of the right foot and pain in dorsal area foot.…
Pneumothorax?
At the 8am departmental handover, you discuss a 69-year-old man with COPD who presented two hours earlier with SOB.…
Break the BRASH
A 59-year-old man pre-alerted to the PCI team with symptomatic CHB and received Atropine prehospitally. The patient is directed to the ED and is stable on assessment with significant bradyarrhythmia.…
Surgical Third Nerve Palsy
A 45-year-old woman presents to the ED with a history of headache persisting for the past 4-5 days, accompanied by an inability to open her left eye for the past day.…
Managing Domestic Abuse in the ED
12% of ED attendances are related to domestic abuse. How will you identify & manage these cases?…
Fluid Management in Paediatric DKA
You diagnose DKA in a child, how much fluids do you prescribe?…
Pancreatitis
This module provides information on Pancreatitis, including the diagnosis, basic science, assessment and management.…
RCEMLearning Podcast – February 2025
Thank you for tuning into the latest RCEMLearning podcast. We have prepared three multiple-choice questions based on this episode and its accompanying show notes. Successfully answering these question…
An Unusual Cause of Hip Pain in an Athlete
A 30-year-old female athlete patient presents with hip pain progressively worsening for 3 weeks.…
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.…
I’m Blinking Slowly with One Eye!
An 11-year-old boy is seen in the accident and emergency department by an SHO.…
Acute Behavioural Disturbance (ABD)
SBA session on the RCEM recommendations about the management of an aggressive patient with acute behavioural disturbance (ABD). How to keep your patient, your colleagues, and yourself safe!…
Sight on the Line: A Paediatric Red Eye Dilemma
A 7-year-old presents with a red, painful eye following a playground trauma.…
Tired purple legs
A 7-year-old girl presents with an acute, painful hot knee and a red-purple non-blanching rash.…
Adrenaline in a (lawyer’s) finger…
While working in the minors area of a busy teaching hospital’s ED, a somewhat flustered junior doctor approaches you to confess her actions.…