A 22-year-old lady delivers a 36-week-old baby unexpectedly at home. The baby was initially pink with an Apgar of 9, and a birth weight of 7lbs.
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
A 10-year-old boy is brought into hospital after a fainting episode at school.
56-year-old presents with a bleeding base of tongue tumour. You cannot intubate and you cannot ventilate. How do you proceed?
You are called by a resident doctor to help manage a 22-year-old male brought into the ED resuscitation area, presenting with wheeze, cough and shortness of breath.
Mr X is a middle aged gentleman who was assaulted with a house brick whilst riding a push bike.
An 81-year-old presents following a collapse. His blood tests from triage included a troponin level. Its significantly elevated. What next?
It is a busy winter evening in the ED. The next patient to be seen is a 37-year-old female presenting with a headache, nausea and general malaise.
An 8-year-old girl is brought to the ED by her mother after having fallen from a climbing frame.
A patient starts seizing in your ED, standard management is commenced but the cause and management may not be so straightforward.
A 17-year-old man attends your ED having taken an unconventional shortcut on his way home. Check out this SAQ on Drowning.
RIF pain and PV bleeding - history and treatment.
You are about to see two patients both of whom have testicular pain
Principles of consent in view of recent case law
Learning about lightning injuries
There's more than meets the eye in this case of orbital cellulitis.
Investigating a child presenting with a limping gait to your Paediatric Emergency Department.
During Summer storms, lightning strikes can cause fatalities but what happens to the survivors?
This case describes a therapeutic excess of paracetamol and explores the further management of complications in an unintentional paracetamol overdose.
You are assigned to perform an echo in life support on a 45-year-old patient with a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
A pregnant female accidentally takes an excess of paracetamol. This SAQ explores the important considerations taken when managing acute paracetamol poisoning during pregnancy.
A 50-year-old man with a penile injury - this is one you mustn't miss!
A 4-year-old girl fell whilst playing in the playground on a metal slide and sustained a 3cm open wound to her left cheek and upper lip.
How will you manage haemodynamic instability in a patient following a calcium channel blocker drug overdose?