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In this Rapid Review, we look at decision making around the intubation of patients with Covid-19. This training provides modifications to intubation, designed to achieve first attempt intubation...
Babies do lots of funny movements…but which are normal reflexes and which should we be more worried about?
The Journal Club Podcast for April 2022. Listen to the podcast and have a read of our summary below, courtesy of our senior registrar for research, Dr Bertha Wu.
A 60-year-old, diabetic male presents with a 2/52 history of swollen, erythematous foot. Is this just another cellulitis…or could it be something else?
A 18-year-old male has been brought to your rural Emergency Department suffering 35% TBSA Burns. What are the key management principles when managing this patient?
An 80-year-old patient presents with an intentional overdose of Amlodipine. What is you approach? What are your management priorities?
Psychogenic Non-Epileptiform Seizures in the ED. How up to date is your knowledge? ED registrar Dr Nick Erskine reviews our understanding of the condition, its management and communication strategies with these patients.
Dr Luke Phillips Emergency Physician Peer review: Dr David McCreary Welcome to Fast Fridays – a case-based, rapid review of a topic. The cases have been adapted from real patients but have been...
The Journal Club Podcast for March 2022. Listen to the podcast and have a read of our summary below, courtesy of our senior registrar for research, Dr Bertha Wu.
The Journal Club Podcast for February 2022. Listen to the podcast and have a read of our summary below, courtesy of our senior registrar for research, Dr Eanna Mac Suibhne.
A 65-year-old female undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer presents to your ED with septic shock and likely febrile neutropenia. She does not have any central access device and tells you that the nurses and doctors always struggle finding her veins. You put the tourniquet on and cannot palpate a vein or visualise one on the back of her hands. Do you try to find a vein blindly, potentially wasting precious minutes and increasing time to antibiotics and fluids/inotropes with multiple attempts, or do you reach for the ultrasound probe?