Emergency medicine and trauma for professionals
This professional section focuses on emergency medicine and trauma, offering in-depth content for healthcare professionals involved in diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management. You'll find articles exploring key clinical considerations, guideline updates, and common challenges encountered in real-world practice. Each piece is written or reviewed by UK clinicians to ensure relevance and accuracy for multidisciplinary teams.
- Abdominal hernias
- Abdominal trauma
- Accidents and their prevention
- Acute (adult) respiratory distress syndrome
- Acute abdomen
- Síndrome coronario agudo
- Infarto agudo de miocardio
- Acute poisoning
- Acute pulmonary oedema
- Acute severe asthma and status asthmaticus
- Crisis suprarrenal
- Insuficiencia suprarrenal y enfermedad de Addison
- Adult cardiopulmonary arrest
- Planificación de cuidados avanzados
- Airways and intubation
- Fenómenos alérgicos
- Anaphylaxis and its treatment
- Angioedema
- Ankle fractures
- Ankle injuries and sprains
- Hemorragia anteparto
- Anthrax
- Anti-D (Rho) immunoglobulin
- Apendicitis
- Arterial blood gases - indications and interpretation
- Ascites tapping
- Neumonía por aspiración
- Asma
- Fibrilación auricular
- Trastorno bipolar
- Bladder and urethral injuries
- Blast injury
- Tratamiento a ciegas de infección bacteriana
- Blood transfusion reactions
- Enfermedad de Bornholm
- Botulism
- Brachial plexus assessment and common injuries
- Broad complex tachycardias
- Brown-Séquard syndrome
- Burns - assessment and management
- Cannabis use and abuse
- Intoxicación por monóxido de carbono
- Taponamiento cardíaco
- Choque cardiogénico
- Carpal fractures and dislocations
- Síndrome de cauda equina
- Eventos cerebrovasculares
- Cetoacidosis infantil
- Chlorine gas
- Choking and foreign body airway obstruction
- Classifying open fractures
- Fractura de clavícula
- Cocaine addiction and abuse
- Coma
- Síndrome compartimental
- Complicaciones de fracturas
- Complicaciones del infarto agudo de miocardio
- Complications of HIV infection
- Compulsory hospitalisation
- Corneal abrasions, foreign bodies and injuries
- Corneal problems - acute and non-acute
- Cricothyroidotomy
- Crush syndrome
- CT head scanning indications
- Defibrillation and cardioversion
- Delirio
- Delusions and hallucinations
- Depresión
- Depression in children and adolescents
- Cetoacidosis diabética
- Diagnosing conjunctival problems
- Diving accidents
- Ahogamiento y casi ahogamiento
- Alergia a medicamentos
- Dual diagnosis
- ECG a methodical approach
- Ecstasy
- Embarazo ectópico
- Elbow injuries and fractures
- Electrical injuries and lightning strikes
- Manejo de emergencia de la hipoglucemia
- Epilepsy in adults
- Examination of the spine
- Hematoma extradural
- Eye injuries (assessment, treatment and management)
- Fat embolism syndrome
- Femoral fractures
- Femoral hernias
- First seizure
- Food allergy and food intolerance
- Foot fractures and dislocations
- Forearm injuries and fractures
- Foreign bodies in the ear
- Fractured humerus
- Fragility fractures
- Infecciones fúngicas pulmonares
- Heridas por arma de fuego
- Hemoptisis
- Hand injuries and their assessment
- Lesión en la cabeza
- Heart failure diagnosis and investigation
- Heavy metal poisoning
- Helicopter transport
- Hereditary angio-oedema
- Hernia de hiato
- High-altitude illness
- HIV post-exposure prophylaxis
- Mordeduras de humanos y animales
- Estado hiperglucémico hiperosmolar
- Hypertensive emergencies
- Crisis hipertiroidea
- Hipotermia
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillators
- Infant respiratory distress syndrome
- Inflammatory retinal diseases
- Influenza
- Inguinal hernias
- Inhalation injury
- Inserting temporary pacemakers
- Interstitial nephritides and nephrotoxins
- Intestinal obstruction and ileus
- Intraosseous infusion
- reacción de Jarisch-Herxheimer
- Knee fractures and dislocations
- Lesiones de ligamentos de la rodilla
- Knee pain
- Lead poisoning
- Löffler's disease
- Lower respiratory tract infection in children
- Mandibular fractures and dislocations
- Maxillofacial injuries
- Meigs' syndrome
- Mendelson's syndrome
- Meningitis
- Enfermedad meningocócica
- Acidosis metabólica
- Aborto espontáneo
- Mollaret's meningitis
- Musculocutaneous nerve lesion
- Mushroom and toadstool toxicology
- Coma mixedematoso
- Taquicardias de complejo estrecho
- Nasal injury and nasal foreign bodies
- Neck pain (cervicalgia) and torticollis
- Pericardiocentesis con aguja
- Needlestick injury
- Neutropenic patients and neutropenic regimes
- Sangrado nasal
- Enfermedades de notificación obligatoria
- Asma ocupacional
- Oesophageal varices
- Oncological emergencies
- Opiate poisoning
- Organ donation
- Pacemaker syndrome and pacemaker complications
- Pacemakers and pacing
- Paediatric supraventricular tachycardia
- Dolor y alivio del dolor
- Pain relief in children
- Intoxicación por paracetamol
- Fracturas pélvicas
- Enfermedad de úlcera péptica
- Peste
- Plain skull X-ray
- Derrame pleural
- Pleural effusion aspiration
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
- Neumonía
- Neumonitis
- Neumotórax
- Posterior myocardial infarct
- Postmenopausal bleeding
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- Pre-hospital analgesia
- Premature babies and their problems
- Prescribing oxygen
- Psychosis - diagnosis and management
- Embolia pulmonar
- Pulse oximetry
- Staphylococcus aureus positivo para PVL
- Rabies
- Radial nerve lesion
- Raised intracranial pressure
- Rapid tranquilisation
- Rectal bleeding in adults
- Sangrado rectal en niños
- Insuficiencia respiratoria
- Resuscitation in hypovolaemic shock
- Ricin poisoning
- Aneurisma aórtico roto
- Intoxicación por salicilato
- Sarcoidosis
- Sarin poisoning
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Esquizofrenia
- Self-harm
- Sepsis
- Síndrome serotoninérgico
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome
- Shoulder dislocation
- Dolor de hombro
- Sickle cell disease and sickle cell anaemia
- Snake bites
- Spider bites
- Spinal cord compression
- Lesión de la médula espinal
- Problemas de discos espinales
- Sports injuries - basic principles
- Status epilepticus management
- Fracturas por estrés
- Hemorragia subaracnoidea
- Subdural haematoma
- Suicide risk assessment and threats of suicide
- Sunburn
- Supraventricular tachycardia in adults
- Surgical emergencies in childhood
- Swallowed foreign bodies
- Síncope
- Syringomyelia and syringobulbia
- Enfermedad tiroidea y cirugía
- Tibial and fibular fractures
- Torsades de pointes
- Torsion of the testis
- Síndrome de choque tóxico
- Tracheostomy
- Evaluación de trauma
- Trauma triage and scoring
- Tropical spastic paraparesis
- Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
- Uterine inversion
- Vegetative states
- Fibrilación ventricular
- Ventricular tachycardias
- Whiplash and cervical spine injury
- Síndrome de Wolff-Parkinson-White
- Wound management and suturing
- Wrist fractures
- Zipped penis