SAQ Stack
Short Answer Questions for ED Fellowship Study
Very Fast Tachycardia
A 50-year-old man is brought into your resus bay with palpitations. A 12-lead ECG is performed.
Aspirin ingestion
A 21-year-old woman with a longstanding history of borderline personality disorder is brought in by ambulance 2 hours after deliberate …
Venlafaxine ingestion
A 25-year-old man with a history of depression and anxiety is BIBA, 3 hours after taking a deliberate overdose of …
Webster pack overdose
A 75-year-old male with mild dementia is BIBA after accidentally taking 2 days’ worth of his Webster pack 3 hours …
Agitated patient detention
A 40-year-old woman is brought into ED under a section 20 by paramedics with delusions and paranoia on a background …
Medication error review
You receive a complaint via the Patient Advocate’s office that a patient was subject to a medication error whilst in …
Clinical photos policy
The dermatology service at your large tertiary hospital has proposed that phone consultations regarding rashes/lesions be accompanied by images taken …
Train crash
There has been a collision between a passenger train and a goods train. There are a large number of serious …
Trauma retrieval decision
You are a member of a retrieval team tasked by helicopter to retrieve a 25-year-old from a small peripheral country …
Decompression illness
A 30-year-old recreational diver is brought by ambulance to your small coastal ED. He collapsed shortly after emerging from the …
Paediatric drowning arrest
A 3-year-old boy arrives to your urban district Emergency Department having been found at the bottom of a backyard swimming …
Heat stroke
A 36-year-old-male is brought in by ambulance to your regional emergency department with confusion and agitation. He had been competing …
Hypothermia
A 59-year-old patient is found unconscious at home following a welfare check. He is hypotensive with a GCS of 5. …
Difficult airway
As resuscitationists, we otien need to anticipate and prepare for the ‘difficult airway’ in the ED.
Stridor and croup
You are a consultant in an urban district ED when a 20-month-old girl presents with stridor and cough. She has …
Neuroprotective intubation
A 75-year-old female is brought in by ambulance obtunded following collapse at home. She has a past history of anticoagulated …
Biers block
A 54-year-old female presents to your Emergency Department with left wrist pain following a trip and fall. She has no …
Cardiac tamponade post valve replacement
A 55-year-old man self-presents to your regional ED with new onset shortness of breath on exertion and presyncope post bovine …
Funnel-web spider bite
You are the day consultant in a large regional ED on the east coast of NSW. You have received notice …
Crashing neonate
A 6-day-old is brought to your ED, floppy and lethargic. The child was born at term by normal vaginal delivery. …
Severe life-threatening asthma
You are the tertiary ED consultant on duty. Your team is treating a 40-year-old male with severe life-threatening asthma. The …
HSV transverse myelitis
A 22-year-old woman presents to your Emergency Department with bilateral lower limb weakness that has progressed within the last 24 …
Child with PR bleeding
The concerned parents of a 4-year-old boy have presented to your urban district hospital with their son who complains of …