Alfred Emergency Education

Infantile Spasms

by Dave McCreary | May 11, 2022 | Neurology, Paediatrics | 0 |

Babies do lots of funny movements…but which are normal reflexes and which should we be more worried about?

Journal Club – April 2022

by Dave McCreary | May 3, 2022 | Journal Club, Podcast | 0 |

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.

Fast Friday #4 – Diabetic with a swollen, red foot

by Dave McCreary | Apr 29, 2022 | Endocrine, Fast Track, Orthopaedics | 0 |

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?

Fast Friday #3 – Principles of Burns Management

by Luke Phillips | Apr 15, 2022 | Burns, Critical Care, Fellowship Exam, FOAMed | 0 |

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?

Fast Friday #2 – Massive Amlodipine Overdose

by Luke Phillips | Apr 7, 2022 | Critical Care, Fellowship Exam, Primary Exam Knowledge, Toxicology | 0 |

An 80-year-old patient presents with an intentional overdose of Amlodipine. What is you approach? What are your management priorities?

Psychogenic Seizures in the ED

by Dave McCreary | Apr 6, 2022 | Neurology, Psychiatry | 0 |

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.

Fast Friday #1 – T2DM, ‘High’ BSL

by Dave McCreary | Apr 1, 2022 | Critical Care, Endocrine, Fellowship Exam | 0 |

Dr Luke Phillips Emergency Physician Peer review: Dr David McCreary Welcome to Fast Fridays – a...

Journal Club – March 2022

by Dave McCreary | Mar 28, 2022 | Journal Club, Podcast | 0 |

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.

Journal Club – February 2022

by Dave McCreary | Mar 15, 2022 | Journal Club, Podcast | 0 |

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.

Ultrasound Guided IV Access

by Dave McCreary | Mar 11, 2022 | Ultrasound | 0 |

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?