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This session is about the assessment and management of patients presenting with testicular pain to the emergency department
- Learning Session
Tracheostomy emergencies are rare in the emergency department but are associated with high mortality and morbidity. It is therefore essential that emergency department practitioners are competent in assessing and stabilising patients with complications arising from tracheostomies.
- Learning Session
This session is about assessment and management of patients presenting with transient loss of consciousness to the ED.
- Learning Session
This module will discuss the causes of lower gastrointestinal bleeding in children. It will consider how the causes can be differentiated by age, when to perform further investigations and basic management plans.
- Learning Session
This session looks at the assessment and management of acute facial palsy.
- Learning Session
This session is about the pathophysiology of acute coronary syndromes, and recognising the various presentations and clinical features associated with them.
- Learning Session
This module focuses on the treatment of adult patients with previously diagnosed asthma that present to the ED with an acute episode of breathlessness.
- Learning Session
Handover of critical care patients carries significant potential risk. Misunderstanding, misinterpretation or omitted information can have significant adverse impact on patient outcome.
- Learning Session
This session looks at the classic presentations of renal colic and its management in the emergency department (ED). It focuses on the investigation techniques and their strengths and weaknesses
- Learning Session
FAST involves assessment of the peritoneal cavity, pleural cavity and pericardial space. Learning that free fluid is present facilitates the most appropriate management plan.
- Learning Session
Describing the key features relevant to the history of phaeochromocytoma
- Learning Session
Myasthenia gravis does not present often to the Emergency Department. However, it can manifest as respiratory failure
- Learning Session
Identify the anatomical factors that contribute to the pathophysiology of mandibular and temporomandibular joint injury
- Learning Session
This session will illustrate through a series of clinical case studies some of the common problems a patient with end stage renal disease (ESRD) is prone to
- Learning Session
This session aims to illustrate, through a series of clinical cases, the common presentations and complications of acute kidney injury (AKI).
- Learning Session
This module is about the assessment and management of a deteriorating airway in the emergency department.
- Learning Session
Patients with known pulmonary hypertension may present to the emergency department with a variety of acute problems related to this disease such as pulmonary embolism
- Learning Session
This session covers the assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting to an ED with the effects of heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
- Learning Session
This session is about the evaluation of arterial blood gases in the emergency department
- Learning Session
This session will describe calcium homeostasis. It will also examine therapeutic uses of calcium and discuss the disturbances of hypercalcaemia and hypocalcaemia.
- Learning Session
This session is about the assessment and management of an upper GI haemorrhage
- Learning Session
This learning module covers the basics of what an LVAD is, the common complications an emergency medical team may have to deal with, and the management of a collapsed LVAD patient.
- Learning Session
This session looks at the techniques available to collect urine samples from children in an emergency department. It discusses the evidence basis and the relative merits of each technique