SAQ Library : Prehospital & Retrieval
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Infant drowning
You are working on a pre-hospital/retrieval service. You receive a notification at your base: “Two siblings were being bathed together: …
Decompression illness
A 30-year-old recreational diver is brought by ambulance to your small coastal ED. He collapsed shortly after emerging from the …
Mass casualty incident train derailment
A commuter train has derailed in a semi-urban area, and approximately 60 patients are reported. You are the consultant in …
Major incident
It is a busy Saturday evening in a tertiary ED where you are working as a junior FACEM. The NUM …
Interhospital transport
A 56-year-old male with a suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage in a regional hospital requires urgent transfer to a tertiary neurosurgical centre.
Major incident
You are the FACEM in charge of a tertiary hospital ED. You are informed that a major incident has been …
Paediatric femoral shaft fracture transfer
An 11-year-old girl presents to your rural emergency department after a car accident. An X-ray of the left femur is …
Train collision mass casualty incident
There has been a collision between a passenger train and a goods train. There are a large number of serious …
Paediatric extradural haematoma transfer
A 6-year-old boy presents after being struck on the side of the head by a baseball. He has an isolated …
Retrieval of polytrauma patient
You are a member of a retrieval team tasked by helicopter to retrieve a 25-year-old patient from a small peripheral …
Regional mass casualty
You are the consultant of a regional base hospital. You are informed by local ambulance control of a level crossing …
Prehospital entrapment
You are the retrieval doctor at a pre-hospital scene where there has been a single-occupant rollover MVA. The driver has …
Major MVA
You are the consultant in charge of a ter ary ED. The ambulance service calls warning that they are at …
Trauma Retrieval
You are the ED consultant at a regional centre caring for a 65-year-old polytrauma patient who was injured in a …