CC18: Valid Consent

 

To obtain valid consent from the patient. Understand the particular importance of considering the patient's level of understanding and mental state (and also that of the parents, relatives or carers when appropriate) and how this may impair their capacity for informed consent.

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Lightning Learning: Refusal of Treatment?
Lightning Learning: Refusal of Treatment?

What to do when patients are refusing life-saving treatment.

#SimBlog: Preparing For The Worst
#SimBlog: Preparing For The Worst

35-year-old patient with a fracture dislocation of the ankle, with no pedal pulse.

#SimBlog: Absconded Teenager
#SimBlog: Absconded Teenager

You enter the cubicle and the patient is gone... what would you do?

Lightning Learning: Suicide Risk
Lightning Learning: Suicide Risk

Suicide risk assessment is hard, especially in the ED. However, the SAD PERSONS score can be helpful when taking a history.

Lightning Learning: Capacity
Lightning Learning: Capacity

1.5% of Emergency Department (ED) attendances are from those with mental health issues.

 

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Bristol Royal Infirmary ED

 

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