HAP34: Wound Management

The trainee will be able to assess the patient with increasing complex wounds, providing analgesia, wound exploration, identification of damaged underlying structures, repair where appropriate and closure.

 
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#SimBlog: A Paediatric Stabbing
#SimBlog: A Paediatric Stabbing

A large muscular 15-year-old adolescent is walked in by hospital security clutching a blood-soaked sheet with a knife sticking out his right leg.

Lightning Learning: Necrotising Fasciitis
Lightning Learning: Necrotising Fasciitis

This rare condition requires a high index of suspicion. Clinical features are progressive, but mortality can double after only 24 hours of presentation!

Lightning Learning: Pre-Tibial Laceration
Lightning Learning: Pre-Tibial Laceration

Pre-tibial lacerations usually affects the older population when the skin over the shin becomes thin and friable, allowing small injuries to cause the skin to tear for easily.

#MiniTeach: Another Paediatric Limp
#MiniTeach: Another Paediatric Limp

It's 10:00pm on a Saturday night and a mother has brought in her 2-year-old son to children’s ED.

#SimBlog: Scalded Child
#SimBlog: Scalded Child

A 12-month-old is brought to the ED by paramedics after mum lost her balance and poured a kettle full of boiling water over the child’s face and chest.

#MiniTeach: A Post Operative Problem
#MiniTeach: A Post Operative Problem

A 58-year-old lady presents by ambulance to the ER. She was discharged the previous day having undergone day-case laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

 

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