It’s a busy Saturday night in your ED and another patient with a facial injury presents following an alleged assault.…
Status Epilepticus
Status epilepticus, a state of prolonged, uncontrolled seizures, is a common emergency department presentation that is potentially life-threatening.…
The Twitching Tot
The paramedics arrive with a 3-year-old boy who has had two seizures today. He has known developmental delay but has no history of seizures previously…
The Collapsing Child
A 10-year-old boy is brought into hospital after a fainting episode at school.…
Carbamazepine – A Toxic Shock
A 46-year-old man is brought by ambulance to the ED. He has been drinking alcohol all afternoon and, according to collateral from his wife, he has taken some tablets two hours prior the presentation.…
Doctor! Why Can’t I Walk?
A 65-year-old male presents to the emergency department by ambulance with an episode of collapse.…
The Swirl sign, you must act now!
Mr X is a middle aged gentleman who was assaulted with a house brick whilst riding a push bike.…
Pneumocephalus
An 18-year-old female presents after falling 8ft from a tree. She landed directly onto her head and lost consciousness for 30 seconds.…
What’s wrong with my baby?
A 3-day-old baby girl is brought to the emergency department by her distressed mother with complaints about the baby’s shivering and lethargy.…
Non-traumatic Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
This module describes the management of presentations of non-traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage in the ED.…
Too much of a good thing
A patient having a large laceration sutured suddenly goes into cardiac arrest.…
Young People Don’t Get Strokes?
It’s 5am. A 26-year-old is blue lighted to ED with slurred speech and limb weakness.…
Neuroprotective Ventilation in Traumatic Brain Injury
A 21-year-old man is involved in a high speed RTC. He has a GCS of 6/15 at the scene and has an isolated head injury.…
A Patchy History
A previously fit and well, fully immunised 10-month-old is brought into your ED with a 3 hour history of drowsiness.…
Dazed and Confused
An 8-year-old girl is brought into the ED with a head injury. She was out sledging with her family when she lost control and collided with a tree.…
Eyelid Injury
A 31-year-old man presented to the ED after falling off a wall into a bush. He sustained head and facial injuries.…
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.…
Coma
This session covers effective assessment, diagnosis and management of the patients presenting with coma.…
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…
EMJ April 2020
Noel Fernando discusses Cranial burr holes in the emergency department: to drill or not to drill?…