SAQ Library : Respiratory

A 2-year-old male is brought to your emergency department after an episode of choking followed by one episode …

A 68-year-old previously well woman is brought to your tertiary emergency department with fevers and breathlessness. Her rapid …

A 2-month-old male infant presents to the ED with a 3-day history of coryza, cough and increased work …

A 2-year-old male presents to your ED with a 5-day history of fever and cough.

There is an increasing frequency in the use of POCUS to diagnose a pneumothorax in the Emergency Department.

A 65-year-old woman has presented with difficulty breathing. Your assessment is consistent with an acute infective exacerbation of …

An 82-year-old man has presented with fever, dyspnoea, chest pain and a productive cough. He was discharged from …

You are the tertiary ED consultant on duty. Your team is treating a 40-year-old male with severe life-threatening …

A 2-year-old child presents to your large metropolitan ED with respiratory distress and stridor. Her mum expresses concern …

A 30-year-old recreational diver is brought by ambulance to your small coastal ED. He collapsed shortly after emerging …

A 13 month old girl has been taken to the ED by the ambulance service. She was run …

A 6-year-old girl presents to a large mixed ED with 2 weeks of cough and intermittent fever. For …

A 35-year-old woman presents to the ED with central chest pain and two syncopal episodes.

A 45-year-old man presents to the ED with progressive weakness, difficulty swallowing, and shortness of breath. He has …

An 8-year-old girl has presented to your rural ED with fevers, shortness of breath and a productive cough …

A 48-year-old man, well-known to your department with alcohol dependence and chronic pancreatitis, presents with acute epigastric pain. …

A 30-year-old homeless male presents to your tertiary ED with a productive cough, fever, shortness of breath and …

A 24-year-old female with a history of asthma presents to the ED with recent viral infection associated with …

An 11-month-old girl is brought into your rural emergency department with suspected community acquired pneumonia after being unwell …

A 45-year-old man known to be HIV positive, presents to your department with fever, nonproductive cough, weight loss …

A 28-year-old female presents to the Emergency Department with a 2-day history of fever, chest pain, and worsening …

A 44-year-old Polynesian woman presents with a 4-day history of progressive dyspnoea and somnolence. She has a BMI …

A 60-year-old man presents with shortness of breath. You intend to perform pleurocentesis as part of your management.

A 69-year-old woman presents with a 1-hour history of haemoptysis, coughing up approximately two cups of bright red …