SAQ Stack : Trauma
Short Answer Questions for ED Fellowship Study
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 …
Abdominal trauma
You are working in a level 1 Trauma Centre. You receive ambulance pre-notification regarding a 23-year-old male involved in a …
Pelvic fracture and haemorrhagic shock
A 35 year old woman is brought to your tertiary ED following a high speed motor bike accident. She is …
Facial burn after syncope
A 53-year-old female presents to your rural emergency department after a syncopal episode at home. She collapsed onto an electric …
Paediatric polytrauma with tension pneumothorax
A 13 month old girl has been taken to the ED by the ambulance service. She was run over in …
Trauma in pregnancy
A woman is involved in a high speed motor vehicle rash and is brough to your ED. She is 34 …
Open globe injury
A 45 year old man presents to the Emergency Department following an isolated injury to his right eye.
Cervical spine injury
A 35-year-old male presents to your tertiary ED after a mountain biking accident. Paramedics found him lying supine and unable …
Head injury
A 27-year-old man presents following an assault. He had a GCS of 5 at the scene and has been intubated …
Crush syndrome
A 28-year-old male is brought in by ambulance after an accident on a construction site. An excavator tipped onto its …
Major incident
It is a busy Saturday evening in a tertiary ED where you are working as a junior FACEM. The NUM …
Major incident
You are the FACEM in charge of a tertiary hospital ED. You are informed that a major incident has been …
Frailty and goals of care in geriatric trauma
You are the consultant working in a major trauma centre when an 85 year old man is brought in by …
Minor head injury in toddler
A toddler is brought to your emergency department after a fall. The exact mechanism is unclear but was reported as …
Blunt abdominal trauma
A 28-year-old man is brought into your tertiary ED having been witnessed to jump from a 2nd storey balcony (approximately …
Traumatic limb amputation
A 70 year old male is brought into your tertiary Emergency Department after pre-hospital notification of a suicide attempt by …
Penetrating neck trauma with aerodigestive injury
A 17-year-old man has presented to your rural ED following a quadbike accident where he impacted a wire fence and …
Trauma in pregnancy
A 25-year-old female is BIBA following a high speed MVA. She was driving on a highway at 100kph when an …
Back pain, falls and urinary retention
You are the consultant on duty on Saturday evening in a busy major referral Emergency Department. You are approached by …
Retrieval of polytrauma patient
You are a member of a retrieval team tasked by helicopter to retrieve a 25-year-old patient from a small peripheral …
Paediatric scald burn
A mother brings her 7-month-old baby after she accidentally spilled hot water from the kitchen sink onto the baby's neck, …
Facial trauma
A 45-year-old man presents after being assaulted with a metal bar. He has heavy brisk bleeding from the mouth and …
Paediatric blunt chest trauma
You are the resuscitation consultant in a paediatric major trauma centre. A 12-year-old girl is brought in by her parents …