This module is based upon the RCEM College Best Practice guideline on Ketamine Procedural Sedation for Children in the Emergency Department.
Serratus anterior plane block can be used as multimodal analgesia for rib fractures in the trauma patient. This module outlines the ultrasound guided technique.
This module focusses on the emergency department care of patients post-cardiac arrest i.e. after the return of spontaneous circulation.
This module encompasses the evaluation and treatment of individuals who are either identified as having or presenting to the ED with signs and symptoms of Immune Thrombocytopenia.
This session covers the assessment and management of epistaxis in the emergency department.
This module provides training in chest drain insertion. It looks at the indications for carrying out this procedure, as well as how to prepare for it, and shows a chest drain being inserted. Post-procedure management and complex cases are also covered.
This session provides an introduction to Brief Unexplained Resolved Events. It covers the definition, differential diagnoses, how to stratify patients into low or high risk and the subsequent management.
This module describes the processes around Information Sharing to Tackle Community Violence. It also describes some of the responsibilities of emergency clinicians around confidentiality when looking after victims of violence.
This module is about assessment and management of patients presenting with palpitations to the emergency department.
This module identifies the clinical features of acute behavioural disturbance (ABD) and covers the initial assessment and management of patients with ABD in the Emergency Department.
Sudden visual loss is a presentation one should expect and be prepared to see, as an emergency physician.
This session covers the practical aspects of safe insertion of chest drains using videos to provide guidance. It covers both the Seldinger technique and the open approach to chest drain insertion.
This module covers the assessment and management of patients presenting with breathlessness to the ED.
This module discusses the pathophysiology that leads to the clinical manifestations of Sickle Cell disease and outline the assessment and management of the patients.
The child with decreased consciousness is a common problem with many possible diagnoses and potentially high mortality and morbidity
AKI in children is associated with an increased risk of death, prolonged hospital stay and the development of chronic kidney disease. This module provides an approach to assessment and management of Paediatric AKI.
This module covers ACES scans which can provide crucial information in undifferentiated shocked patients.
This module deals with the assessment and management of possible deep vein thrombosis in the emergency department.
This module details the three main presentations of Congenital Heart Disease to the ED; shock, cyanosis and congestive heart failure.
This learning session focuses on the understanding, recognition and management of acute RHF.
This session reviews the clinical presentation and investigation of cervical artery dissection.
This module covers the assessment and management of primary, secondary and tension pneumothoraces.
Chest and abdominal x-rays are commonly requested in the emergency department.
This module describes the management of presentations of non-traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage in the ED.