Return to Police Custody
May 18, 2025It is vital that patients returning to police custody as discharged as safely as possible. Part of that is ensuring the custody team has adequate… Read more
Paediatric afebrile seizure pathway
May 12, 2025Afebrile Seizure Read more
Think -TB
May 2, 2025The prevalence of Tuberculosis in our region is increasing and has significant issues for both the patient and public health if we miss it. Symptoms… Read more
LA – Toxicity
April 27, 2025We are regularly doing blocks next to major vessels. So warn the patient of the symptoms, & keep them monitored(at least 15 min). Symptoms of… Read more
Head Injury
April 26, 2025Background Defined as any traumatic injury to the head other than superficial facial injuries. The commonest cause of death and disability in people age 1-40… Read more
C-Spine Injury
April 26, 2025C-spine injury ranges from the obvious fracture-dislocation to the less obvious ligamentous injury, affecting about 2.5% of blunt trauma patients. However, ALL of them are… Read more
Malignant/Accelerated Hypertension
April 26, 2025There are several terms commonly used “Accelerated Hypertension”, “Hypertensive Emergency”, “Malignant Hypertension”. They all have a very similar definition (ESC/ESH, NICE, ACEP) Patient has both:… Read more
Acute Behavioural Disturbance / Excited Delirium
April 26, 2025Most of us will have seen patients like this – agitated, aggressive and often with police or security pinning them down. High risk of Cardiovascular… Read more