SAQ Stack : Resuscitation
Short Answer Questions for ED Fellowship Study
Infant drowning and termination transport considerations
You are working on a pre-hospital/retrieval service. You receive a notification at your base: “Two siblings were being bathed together: …
Unwell neonate
An 8-day-old neonate is brought to the ED by concerned parents. Over the last 48 hours she has become increasingly …
Infant status epilepticus
<p>It is 11pm in your tertiary mixed emergency department and a 4-month-old baby arrives via ambulance with a generalised tonic-clonic …
Early pregnancy bleeding and collapse
A 23-year-old female presents to your Emergency Department with lower abdominal discomfort and some per-vaginal bleeding. Her LMP was 5 …
Trauma in pregnancy
A woman is involved in a high speed motor vehicle rash and is brough to your ED. She is 34 …
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
A 46-year-old man is brought in by ambulance having been unwell for the past 3 days with fever, abdominal pain …
Cardiac arrest on a beach
You are working at a regional hospital in a coastal city in northern Australia. You are pre-alerted that the ambulance …
Post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage
You are the consultant in charge of a tertiary ED. A 2000h a 3-year-old, 15kg male child presents with his …
Collapsed neonate
A 14 day old term baby is brought to your suburban mixed ED at 6am. Parents reported the breathing rate …
Syncope
A 70 year old man has collapsed at the shops with chest pain. The ambulance service found him to be …
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 …
Fever and groin pain
You are asked to review an unwell 64-year-old male in your emergency department. A quick review of previous records reveals …
Ischaemic stroke thrombolysis complications
A 78-year-old woman presents to ED with acute onset dysphasia and right upper limb weakness. CT imaging is consistent with …
Broad complex tachycardia
A 55-year-old male is brought in by ambulance with palpitations. He is placed into a resus bay and has intravenous …
Seizure due to severe hyponatraemia
A 64-year-old female presents with an altered conscious state following a seizure. Initial ABG shows pH 7.32, PCO2 31 mmHg, …
Post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage with shock
An 18-year-old male is brought in by ambulance with several episodes of large volume haemoptysis 10 days post tonsillectomy. He …
Preterm neonatal resuscitation and debrief
An emergency alarm is activated in your ED after precipitous delivery of a preterm baby in the carpark.
Ventilated severe asthma with deterioration
A young woman with an estimated weight of 50 kg has just been intubated for severe asthma and is currently …
PEA cardiac arrest with ultrasound
A 27-year-old female has collapsed at home. She develops a narrow-complex PEA arrest en route to hospital. The paramedics are …
Brief resolved unexplained event
Indie is a 12-week-old baby brought in by ambulance after an episode at home where she went floppy and dusky …