Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
Emergency Medicine education blog
Scenario You are asked to attend to a 40 year old man in your emergency department waiting room. He is agitated and verbally abusive towards triage staff. He is morbidly obese. Question 1 Outline the key issues in management of this situation. Outline of Answer Question 2 Show Question 2 Outline your approach to verbal [...]
Scenario It is 0750hrs on a weekday at your urban emergency department. You are about to commence day shift as the duty consultant. There are 23 patients in the ED, and 6 waiting to be seen. You are asked by the night registrar to help manage a newly arrived 64 yo man. He was brought [...]
Scenario You are the duty Consultant in your rural ED. You receive ambulance notification regarding 2 paediatric patients with burn injuries. Estimated time of arrival is 5 minutes. Both children were playing in the kitchen. One of them grabbed the handle of a large pot of boiling oil, tipping its contents over both of them. [...]
Scenario You are the Consultant in an urban ED, on a busy shift. You receive ambulance pre-notification about a domestic dispute. They are transporting 2 patients both with shotgun wounds. ETA is 10 minutes. Question 1 Outline the issues involved in this scenario. Outline of answer Question 2 Show Question 2 The ambulance arrives. The [...]
Scenario A 27 year old woman presents to your Emergency Department with left calf swelling for the last 2 days. She is a smoker who had a left knee arthroscopy approximately 10 days ago. She is otherwise healthy, takes no other medications, and has no drug allergies Question 1 How would you assess this patient’s [...]
A 15 year old girl presents from school after her art teacher was concerned by her behaviour in the classroom. She was found seated at her desk cutting her wrists with a craft knife.
A 24 year-old multiparous woman who is 36 weeks pregnant presents to triage in labour. She is transferred to the resuscitation room and the nurse tells you the head is on show. The maternity ward is located in an separate building to the ED.
Scenario A 65 year old man is brought to your urban district ED from a burning factory. Firefighters found him unconscious within the building. His observations are as follows Arterial blood gases on 15 l of oxygen Question 1 List possible causes for his reduced conscious state Outline of answer Question 2 Show Question 2 [...]
For a forthright review of the Toxicology Handbook 2nd edition, the LITFL team turned to an esteemed emergency medicine educator, Dr Trevor Jackson.
A 22 year old presents to the ED following the alleged ingestion of fenofibrate tablets 2 hours prior to presentation.
