Emergency medicine and trauma for professionals
This professional section focuses on emergency medicine and trauma, offering in-depth content for healthcare professionals involved in diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management. You'll find articles exploring key clinical considerations, guideline updates, and common challenges encountered in real-world practice. Each piece is written or reviewed by UK clinicians to ensure relevance and accuracy for multidisciplinary teams.
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- Abdominal hernias
- Abdominal trauma
- Accidents and their prevention
- Acute (adult) respiratory distress syndrome
- Acute abdomen
- Acute coronary syndrome
- Acute myocardial infarction
- Acute poisoning
- Acute pulmonary oedema
- Acute severe asthma and status asthmaticus
- Adrenal crisis
- Adrenal insufficiency and Addison's disease
- Adult cardiopulmonary arrest
- Advance care planning
- Airways and intubation
- Allergic phenomena
- Anaphylaxis and its treatment
- Angio-oedema
- Ankle fractures
- Ankle injuries and sprains
- Antepartum haemorrhage
- Anthrax
- Anti-D (Rho) immunoglobulin
- Appendicitis
- Arterial blood gases - indications and interpretation
- Ascites tapping
- Aspiration pneumonia
- Asthma
- Atrial fibrillation
- Bipolar disorder
- Bladder and urethral injuries
- Blast injury
- Blind treatment of bacterial infection
- Blood transfusion reactions
- Bornholm disease
- Botulism
- Brachial plexus assessment and common injuries
- Broad complex tachycardias
- Brown-Séquard syndrome
- Burns - assessment and management
- Cannabis use and abuse
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Cardiac tamponade
- Cardiogenic shock
- Carpal fractures and dislocations
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Cerebrovascular events
- Childhood ketoacidosis
- Chlorine gas
- Choking and foreign body airway obstruction
- Classifying open fractures
- Clavicle fracture
- Cocaine addiction and abuse
- Coma
- Compartment syndrome
- Complications from fractures
- Complications of acute myocardial infarction
- Complications of HIV infection
- Compulsory hospitalisation
- Corneal abrasions, foreign bodies and injuries
- Corneal problems - acute and non-acute
- Cricothyroidotomy
- Crush syndrome
- CT head scanning indications
- Defibrillation and cardioversion
- Delirium
- Delusions and hallucinations
- Depression
- Depression in children and adolescents
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Diagnosing conjunctival problems
- Diving accidents
- Drowning and near drowning
- Drug allergy
- Dual diagnosis
- ECG a methodical approach
- Ecstasy
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Effects of alcohol abuse
- Elbow injuries and fractures
- Electrical injuries and lightning strikes
- Emergency management of hypoglycaemia
- Epilepsy in adults
- Examination of the spine
- Extradural haematoma
- Eye injuries (assessment, treatment and management)
- Fat embolism syndrome
- Femoral fractures
- Femoral hernias
- First seizure
- Food allergy and food intolerance
- Foot fractures and dislocations
- Forearm injuries and fractures
- Foreign bodies in the ear
- Fractured humerus
- Fragility fractures
- Fungal lung infections
- Gunshot injuries
- Haemoptysis
- Hand injuries and their assessment
- Head injury
- Heart failure diagnosis and investigation
- Heat-related illness
- Heavy metal poisoning
- Helicopter transport
- Hereditary angio-oedema
- Hiatus hernia
- High-altitude illness
- HIV post-exposure prophylaxis
- Human and animal bites
- Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state
- Hypertensive emergencies
- Hyperthyroid crisis
- Hypothermia
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillators
- Infant respiratory distress syndrome
- Inflammatory retinal diseases
- Influenza
- Inguinal hernias
- Inhalation injury
- Inserting temporary pacemakers
- Interstitial nephritides and nephrotoxins
- Intestinal obstruction and ileus
- Intraosseous infusion
- Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction
- Knee fractures and dislocations
- Knee ligament injuries
- Knee pain
- Lead poisoning
- Löffler's disease
- Lower respiratory tract infection in children
- Mandibular fractures and dislocations
- Maxillofacial injuries
- Meigs' syndrome
- Mendelson's syndrome
- Meningitis
- Meningococcal disease
- Metabolic acidosis
- Miscarriage
- Mollaret's meningitis
- Musculocutaneous nerve lesion
- Mushroom and toadstool toxicology
- Myxoedema coma
- Narrow complex tachycardias
- Nasal injury and nasal foreign bodies
- Neck pain (cervicalgia) and torticollis
- Needle pericardiocentesis
- Needlestick injury
- Neutropenic patients and neutropenic regimes
- Nosebleed
- Notifiable diseases
- Occupational asthma
- Oesophageal varices
- Oncological emergencies
- Opiate poisoning
- Organ donation
- Pacemaker syndrome and pacemaker complications
- Pacemakers and pacing
- Paediatric supraventricular tachycardia
- Pain and pain relief
- Pain relief in children
- Paracetamol poisoning
- Pelvic fractures
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Plague
- Plain skull X-ray
- Pleural effusion
- Pleural effusion aspiration
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
- Pneumonia
- Pneumonitis
- Pneumothorax
- Posterior myocardial infarct
- Postmenopausal bleeding
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- Pre-hospital analgesia
- Premature babies and their problems
- Prescribing oxygen
- Psychosis - diagnosis and management
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulse oximetry
- PVL-positive Staphylococcus aureus
- Rabies
- Radial nerve lesion
- Raised intracranial pressure
- Rape and sexual assault
- Rapid tranquilisation
- Rectal bleeding in adults
- Rectal bleeding in children
- Respiratory failure
- Resuscitation in hypovolaemic shock
- Ricin poisoning
- Ruptured aortic aneurysm
- Salicylate poisoning
- Sarcoidosis
- Sarin poisoning
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Self-harm
- Sepsis
- Serotonin syndrome
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome
- Shoulder dislocation
- Shoulder pain
- Sickle cell disease and sickle cell anaemia
- Snake bites
- Spider bites
- Spinal cord compression
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal disc problems
- Sports injuries - basic principles
- Status epilepticus management
- Stress fractures
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage
- Subdural haematoma
- Suicide risk assessment and threats of suicide
- Sunburn
- Supraventricular tachycardia in adults
- Surgical emergencies in childhood
- Swallowed foreign bodies
- Syncope
- Syringomyelia and syringobulbia
- Thyroid disease and surgery
- Tibial and fibular fractures
- Torsades de pointes
- Torsion of the testis
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Tracheostomy
- Trauma assessment
- Trauma triage and scoring
- Tropical spastic paraparesis
- Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
- Uterine inversion
- Vegetative states
- Ventricular fibrillation
- Ventricular tachycardias
- Whiplash and cervical spine injury
- Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
- Wound management and suturing
- Wrist fractures
- Zipped penis