SAQ Stack
Short Answer Questions for ED Fellowship Study
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 …
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 …
Projectile vomiting in 5-week-old
A 5-week-old boy has been brought to your ED with projectile vomiting.
Brief resolved unexplained event
An infant male is brought to your ED by ambulance following a Brief Resolved Unexplained Event (BRUE).
Acquired torticollis
A 6-year-old girl is brought in by her parents with neck pain and stiffness. She is unable to straighten her …
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
<p>It is 11pm in your tertiary mixed emergency department and a 4-month-old baby arrives via ambulance with a generalised tonic-clonic …
Abdominal trauma
You are working in a level 1 Trauma Centre. You receive ambulance pre-notification regarding a 23-year-old male involved in a …
Pelvic fracture and haemorrhagic shock
A 35 year old woman is brought to your tertiary ED following a high speed motor bike accident. She is …
Facial burn after syncope
A 53-year-old female presents to your rural emergency department after a syncopal episode at home. She collapsed onto an electric …
Paediatric polytrauma with tension pneumothorax
A 13 month old girl has been taken to the ED by the ambulance service. She was run over in …
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 …
Threatened preterm labour
You are the consultant working an evening shift in a regional hospital when a 19-year-old female who is 32/40 weeks …
Eclampsia and hypertensive emergency
You are the FACEM in charge in a tertiary ED. A 37-year-old woman, 35 weeks’ gestation, is brought in after …
Hyperemesis gravidarum
A 27-year-old female presents with vomiting in early pregnancy. She is 7 weeks gestation based on her LMP. This is …
A 4 month with fever and a rash
A 4-month-old male infant is brought to your urban district ED with 2 days of progressive irritability and fever. His …
Varicella in pregnancy
A 24-year-old woman presents to your Emergency Department with a 2-day history of fever, malaise and a widespread itchy vesicular …
Fever and rash in returned traveller from Bali
A 35-year-old man returned yesterday from a two-week business trip to Bali, Indonesia. He presents to your Emergency Department with …
Meningococcal sepsis in child
A 4-year-old boy presents to your urban district Emergency Department with a one-day history of fever, lethargy, and vomiting. His …
Fever in returned traveller from Sri Lanka
A 36-year-old man presents to the ED with fever and night sweats having returned from Sri Lanka 8 days ago. …
HIV with opportunistic infection and PEP counselling
A 45-year-old man known to be HIV positive, presents with fever, cough, weight loss and confusion. Vitals are as follows …