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Pneumonia
A 30-year-old homeless male presents to your tertiary ED with a productive cough, fever, shortness of breath and haemoptysis. He …
Pneumomediastinum
A 24-year-old female with a history of asthma presents to the ED with recent viral infection associated with cough and …
Collapsed neonate
A 14 day old term baby is brought to your suburban mixed ED at 6am. Parents reported the breathing rate …
Variceal upper GI bleed
A 65 year old woman has been taken to the ED with large volume haematemesis. She has a history of …
Syncope
A 70 year old man has collapsed at the shops with chest pain. The ambulance service found him to be …
Hypercalcaemia
A 56-year-old woman is brought into your tertiary ED by her partner with confusion. Her past history includes hypertension, dyslipidemia …
Paediatric tachycardia
An 18-month-old girl presents to your urban district ED with lethargy and poor feeding over the last 24 hours. She …
SOB and chest pain
A 74-year-old man has presented via ambulance to your tertiary ED with shortness of breath and chest pain for the …
Cardiac POCUS
A 40-year-old man presents with chest pain and SOB. A focused point of care ultrasound is undertaken by your registrar …
Pacemaker malfunction with ventricular arrhythmia
An 85-year-old woman with a past history of IHD and DDD pacemaker presents with palpitations and syncope.
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 …
Research design
You are planning to conduct a research project in your ED and are currently working out an appropriate design for …
Simulation
Simulation is increasingly used in emergency medicine education and training across a wide range of settings and for various purposes.
Supporting an impaired colleague
A colleague and friend of yours has volunteered to you in the tearoom that they have been feeling very low …
Missed ovarian torsion
Your director has asked for your review of a recent missed diagnosis of an ovarian torsion within the Emergency Department.
Open disclosure
A registrar in your Emergency Dept has attempted to place a central venous catheter (CVC) in the internal jugular vein …
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 …
Elder abuse
An 83-year-old female, from a non-English speaking background, is brought in with increasing right thigh pain and swelling after falling …