Approximately 800 heat related deaths occur annually in the UK. In 2003, a heat wave in Southern England resulted in over 1000 deaths…
Heat Related Illness
This session covers the assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting to an ED with the effects of heat stroke and heat exhaustion.…
Peripheral Neuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy is a pathological process affecting a peripheral nerve or nerves (includes cranial nerves).…
Fabricated or Induced Illness
FII is a broad term to describe a group of behaviours by parents or carers which cause harm to children.…
Disturbed or Psychiatric Patients in the ED
Describe a safe environment for assessing disturbed or psychiatric patients in the emergency department…
Cranial Nerves One to Six
Cranial nerve injuries are important clinical signs, which alert the examiner to intracranial pathology. This session will look at the more common traumatic and medical causes of cranial nerve injury…
Secondary Headache
This module will focus on secondary causes of acute severe headaches that are likely to present to an emergency department.…
Parasyncope?
A 47-year-old nurse with a 2 week history of headaches and lethargy presented with a pre-syncopal episode at work. She was pale and sweaty before the collapse and had slow speech during the episode.…
Bell’s Palsy in Children
Bell’s palsy is a relatively uncommon condition presenting to primary care. Despite a benign course for most children with Bell’s palsy, there are a number of serious causes of facial para…
Bubbles on the Brain
A 34-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of left ear pain, without discharge or tinnitus.…
Neck injury
A 62-year-old man comes into the Emergency Department in the early hours of the morning following a fall…
Assessment of Dementia in the ED
Dementia is a common disease within the elderly population. The care of these patients poses challenges for clinicians and carers alike…
Doc, my head hurts
A 42-year-old man presents to the Emergency Department at 4am with a severe headache. He is pacing up and down and says that he has been woken up by a similar headache every night for the last 4 night…
Atypical Chest Pain
A 19-year-old male presents to the emergency department with a 24 hour history of chest pain.…
Intracranial Infections
Intracranial infections (also called central nervous system infections or CNS infections) are relatively rare, but form a very important differential diagnosis in the unwell patient…
Psychiatric Emergencies for the Adult Patient
Patients with mental health problems often present to the Emergency Department (ED). They will commonly be assessed and then treated, initially, by junior doctors.…
Picking your brain (or blood) cells …
A young male has concerning symptoms with a background history of G6PD deficiency…
Popping Out
It’s a busy Friday night in the emergency department and another facial injury presents following an alleged assault to the right eye.…
April 2020
This month we have COVID Discussion | Debriefing post traumatic event | Talking bout dying in the ED | COVID19 Ventilation…
Hyperkalemia
A 60-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 1 week history of increasing lethargy, intermittent tingling in both arms and palpitations…