SAQ Library : Resuscitation
Free Open Access Short Answer Questions for ED Fellowship Study
Track your SAQ progress
Create an account to save attempts, view scores and confidence trends, and track categories over time.
Infant drowning
You are working on a pre-hospital/retrieval service. You receive a notification at your base: “Two siblings were being bathed together: …
Smoke inhalation mass casualty in rural ED
You receive notification of 15 casualties that will present to your small rural ED from a fire in a local …
Unwell neonate
An 8-day-old neonate is brought to the ED by concerned parents. Over the last 48 hours she has become increasingly …
Infant status epilepticus
It is 11pm in your tertiary mixed emergency department and a 4-month-old baby arrives via ambulance with a generalised tonic-clonic …
Early pregnancy bleeding and collapse
A 23-year-old female presents to your Emergency Department with lower abdominal discomfort and some per-vaginal bleeding. Her LMP was 5 …
Trauma in pregnancy
A woman is involved in a high speed motor vehicle rash and is brough to your ED. She is 34 …
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
A 46-year-old man is brought in by ambulance having been unwell for the past 3 days with fever, abdominal pain …
Cardiac arrest on a beach
You are working at a regional hospital in a coastal city in northern Australia. You are pre-alerted that the ambulance …
Post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage
You are the consultant in charge of a tertiary ED. A 2000h a 3-year-old, 15kg male child presents with his …
Collapsed neonate
A 14 day old term baby is brought to your suburban mixed ED at 6am. Parents reported the breathing rate …
Syncope
A 70 year old man has collapsed at the shops with chest pain. The ambulance service found him to be …
Crush syndrome
A 28-year-old male is brought in by ambulance after an accident on a construction site. An excavator tipped onto its …
Septic shock
A 68-year-old man presents to your ED in septic shock secondary to urosepsis. He remains hypotensive (MAP < 65 mmHg) …
Morbid obesity and trauma
A morbidly obese man is brought to your ED following a rollover MVA. His estimated weight is 210kg. He has …
Fever and groin pain
You are asked to review an unwell 64-year-old male in your emergency department. A quick review of previous records reveals …
Ischaemic stroke thrombolysis complications
A 78-year-old woman presents to ED with acute onset dysphasia and right upper limb weakness. CT imaging is consistent with …
Broad complex tachycardia
A 55-year-old male is brought in by ambulance with palpitations. He is placed into a resus bay and has intravenous …
Seizure due to severe hyponatraemia
A 64-year-old female presents with an altered conscious state following a seizure. Initial ABG shows pH 7.32, PCO2 31 mmHg, …
Post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage with shock
An 18-year-old male is brought in by ambulance with several episodes of large volume haemoptysis 10 days post tonsillectomy. He …
Preterm neonatal resuscitation and debrief
An emergency alarm is activated in your ED after precipitous delivery of a preterm baby in the carpark.
Ventilated severe asthma with deterioration
A young woman with an estimated weight of 50 kg has just been intubated for severe asthma and is currently …
PEA cardiac arrest with ultrasound
A 27-year-old female has collapsed at home. She develops a narrow-complex PEA arrest en route to hospital. The paramedics are …