SAQ Stack
Short Answer Questions for ED Fellowship Study
10yo lethargic after recent URTI
A 10-year-old girl presents to your District Hospital ED with lethargy, subjective fevers, vomiting, diarrhoea and upper abdominal pain worsening …
Fever and limp
A 2-year-old girl is brought into your ED with 5-days of fevers and limp. Mum states she had first noticed …
Blue baby
A 4-month-old girl is brought to your ED by her parents. They describe an episode just atier feeding where she …
Pregnant trauma
A 28-year-old female is brought to your Emergency Department with chest and abdominal pain following a high-speed motor vehicle accident. …
PV Bleeding
A 38-year old female presents with active vaginal bleeding. Her vital signs are: BP 110/70, HR 130, RR 16, Sp02 …
RIF pain
A 34-year-old female has been brought in by ambulance to your tertiary hospital with right iliac fossa pain. She appears …
Seizure in pregnancy
You have received prehospital notification about a 40-year-old female, G1P0, who is at 32 weeks gestation of a single pregnancy. …
Button battery ingestion
A mother brings in her 2-year-old son who she suspects may have swallowed a buton batery sometime over the last …
Acute confusion
A 79-year-old woman presents to your metropolitan ED with acute confusional state. She was last seen well by her family …
Overcrowding
You are a new FACEM and your director has asked you to look into access block and overcrowding your emergency …
Dizzy and Short of Breath
A 62-year-old female is brought into the resuscitation area of your department by ambulance. She woke from sleep this morning …
Found down
A 63-year-old female is BIBA to your ED atier being found face down on the floor in her home. She …
Hyperglycemia
A 75-year-old woman is brought to your emergency department with hyperglycaemia.
Lethargy and dizziness
An 87-year-old male from home, presents with 3 days of lethargy and intermittent dizziness. He has a history of type …
Persistent vomiting
A 30-year-old male presents atier 24 hours of persistent vomiting, not keeping anything down. He is confused, looks sweaty and …
SOB with respiratory sepsis
A 78 year old woman with a past history of COAD, Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hypothyroidism, presents with SOB in …
Acute dyspnoea
An 80-year-old gentleman presents with acute dyspnoea, onset 2 hours ago. His past historyis unclear. On arrival he is placed …
SOB POCUS
You are performing a POCUS lung scan on a 65-year-old man with acute shortness of breath. He has a history …
MI post thrombolysis
A 45-year-old man has been transferred to your tertiary ED atier being diagnosed with a myocardial infarction. He was thrombolysed …
Pericardial effusion
A 55-year-old woman has presented with chest pain and shortness of breath. Bedside cardiac ultrasound has revealed a large pericardial …
Haemoptysis
A 69-year-old lady presents to your tertiary ED with a 1-hour history of haemoptysis. She states that she has coughed …
Syncope during tennis
A 22-year-old male presents with an episode of syncope during a game of tennis. He reports no prodromal symptoms prior …
Breathless after Pneumonia
A 78-year-old woman presents with breathlessness. She completed a course of antibiotics for a mild pneumonia 1 week ago. Her …
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 …