EM · Topics

Topics

179 units across 148 domains — 179 topics for Emergency Medicine.

179Units

148Domains

ABCDE approach Abdominal aortic aneurysm Abdominal trauma Acute abdominal pain (approach)Behavioural and mental health emergencies Acute appendicitis Acute coronary syndromes (STEMI/NSTEMI)Acute decompensated heart failure Acute COPD exacerbation Acute ischaemic stroke Acute kidney injury Acute limb ischaemia Acute pancreatitis Acute severe asthma Endocrine emergencies ED airway management & RSI Toxicology and environmental emergencies Environmental emergencies Anaemia and transfusion Anaphylaxis Obstetric, gynaecological and sexual-health emergencies Antimicrobial stewardship in the emergency department Aortic dissection Applied anatomy and physiology (basic sciences)Applied pharmacology for EM ABG interpretation (approach)Aspiration pneumonia & lung abscess Facial nerve and cranial nerve palsies Biliary disease Bowel obstruction Bradyarrhythmias Communication and breaking bad news Procedural & diagnostic ED skills Burn management Carbon monoxide poisoning Cardiac arrest & ALS Cardiogenic shock Cervical spine injury & clearance Chest trauma Clinical handover and ISBAR Coma Community-acquired pneumonia CT interpretation and usage (approach)Consent, capacity and medico-legal Cyanide poisoning Damage control resuscitation Deep vein thrombosis Geriatric and behavioural emergencies Disaster & mass casualty Disaster preparedness and hospital incident command Diabetic emergencies Drowning Ectopic pregnancy ED flow and access block Electrical and lightning injury Electrolyte emergencies — potassium and sodium End-of-life and goals of care Resuscitation Foreign body ingestion and aspiration Geriatric and special-population emergencies Geriatric trauma Neuromuscular junction disorders Haemoptysis Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy Hypertensive emergency Hypothermia Imaging choice and radiation risk Immunocompromised host and febrile neutropenia Infective endocarditis Intracerebral haemorrhage Laboratory interpretation (approach)Limb & extremity trauma Lower gastrointestinal bleed Major trauma resuscitation Mandatory reporting and child protection Mass-gathering and event medicine Massive haemorrhage & transfusion Medical error and patient safety Meningitis and encephalitis Myocarditis & pericarditis Paediatric emergencies Non-invasive ventilation Oxygen therapy & acute respiratory failure Paediatric abdominal emergencies Paediatric fever and serious bacterial illness Paediatric fluid and electrolyte management Paediatric rashes and febrile illness Paediatric respiratory distress Paediatric sepsis and septic shock Paediatric trauma Paracetamol poisoning ED systems, safety and professional Pelvic inflammatory disease Pelvic trauma Perforated viscus Peri-arrest arrhythmias Pericardial tamponade Pleural effusion Pneumothorax Geriatric and medication-safety emergencies Post-cardiac arrest care Postpartum haemorrhage Pulmonary embolism Pulmonary oedema Quality and ED metrics Radiation and chemical exposure Raised intracranial pressure Recognition of deterioration (track and trigger)Red-flag headache Renal colic and nephrolithiasis Research, EBM and biostatistics Respiratory failure (type 1 & 2)Resuscitation team leadership & CRM Rural & retrieval trauma Secondary survey Seizures and first fit Sepsis and septic shock (approach)Septic shock in the ED Sexual assault and intimate partner violence Shock Haematology and general medical emergencies Spinal cord compression Status epilepticus Subarachnoid haemorrhage Subdural and extradural haematoma Syncope (approach)Tachyarrhythmias Teaching, supervision and feedback Team-based care and CRM Testicular torsion ECG interpretation (approach)The anticoagulated trauma patient Australasian Triage Scale The deadly ECG patterns Mental Health Act and compulsory treatment Primary survey Paediatric resuscitation Toxicology and environmental emergencies (approach)Transient ischaemic attack Trauma in pregnancy Trauma team leadership Traumatic brain injury Tuberculosis Upper airway obstruction Upper gastrointestinal bleed Vasoactive drugs in resuscitation Vertigo and dizziness Plain radiograph interpretation (approach)

Domain

ABCDE approach

high

ABCDE approach to the deteriorating patient

A structured, prioritised approach to the recognition and resuscitation of the deteriorating emergency department patient — airway, breathing, circulation, disability, exposure — built on oxygen-delivery physiology, early-warning scoring, the pathophysiology of compensated shock, and time-critical sepsis care. ACEM-primary, globally tagged.

Topics

ABCDE approach

ABCDE approach to the deteriorating patient

Abdominal aortic aneurysm

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (ruptured and intact)

Abdominal trauma

Abdominal trauma

Acute abdominal pain (approach)

Acute abdominal pain — the emergency department approach

Behavioural and mental health emergencies

Acute agitation and rapid tranquillisation

Deliberate self-harm and suicide risk assessment

Mental health and behavioural emergencies

Acute appendicitis

Acute appendicitis

Acute coronary syndromes (STEMI/NSTEMI)

Acute coronary syndromes (STEMI, NSTEMI and unstable angina)

Acute decompensated heart failure

Acute decompensated heart failure and cardiogenic pulmonary oedema

Acute COPD exacerbation

Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Acute ischaemic stroke

Acute ischaemic stroke

Acute kidney injury

Acute kidney injury

Acute limb ischaemia

Acute limb ischaemia (the emergency of the 6 Ps)

Acute pancreatitis

Acute pancreatitis

Acute severe asthma

Acute severe asthma

Endocrine emergencies

Adrenal crisis (Addisonian crisis)

Thyroid emergencies — thyroid storm and myxoedema coma

ED airway management & RSI

Airway management and rapid sequence intubation

Toxicology and environmental emergencies

Alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal (emergency department recognition and management)

Bites and stings

Iron poisoning

Lithium poisoning

Opioid poisoning and the opioid toxidrome (emergency department diagnosis and management)

Salicylate poisoning

Snake envenomation

Spider and marine envenomation

Toxic alcohol poisoning (methanol and ethylene glycol)

Tricyclic antidepressant poisoning (emergency department diagnosis and management)

Environmental emergencies

Altitude illness

Heat illness and heat stroke

Anaemia and transfusion

Anaemia and blood transfusion in the emergency department

Anaphylaxis

Anaphylaxis (the emergency of the IM adrenaline)

Obstetric, gynaecological and sexual-health emergencies

Antepartum haemorrhage

Antimicrobial stewardship in the emergency department

Antimicrobial stewardship in the emergency department — right drug, dose, route and duration, syndromic empirical therapy, de-escalation and resistance

Aortic dissection

Aortic dissection

Applied anatomy and physiology (basic sciences)

Applied anatomy and physiology for emergency medicine

Applied pharmacology for EM

Applied pharmacology for the emergency department

ABG interpretation (approach)

Arterial blood gas interpretation — the systematic emergency department approach

Aspiration pneumonia & lung abscess

Aspiration pneumonia and lung abscess

Facial nerve and cranial nerve palsies

Bell palsy and cranial nerve palsies

Biliary disease

Biliary disease — biliary colic, acute cholecystitis and ascending cholangitis

Bowel obstruction

Bowel obstruction

Bradyarrhythmias

Bradyarrhythmias and atrioventricular block in the emergency department

Communication and breaking bad news

Breaking bad news and communication in the emergency department — the SPIKES framework

Procedural & diagnostic ED skills

Burn dressing and wound care in the emergency department