Registrar Guide

Here is a suggested reading guide during your attachment with the ED.  Mastery of these topics would be considered a necessary pre-requisite for a person of your level.

ANAESTHETICS

• The Difficult airway
• Drugs for Sedation/Analgesia
• Conscious Sedation
• Mechanical ventilation - principles
• Oxylog 2000

GENERAL MEDICINE

• Acute hypertension
• Acute Seizures/Status epilepticus
• Poisons causing Seizures
• Pre-renal failure versus ATN
• Bleeding disorders - Hereditary
• Bleeding disorders - Acquired
• Blood component therapy

BIOCHEMISTRY

• Hypercalcaemia
• Hyponatraemia
• Hypernatraemia
• Hyperkalaemia
• Electrolyte disturbances and the ECG

TRAUMA

• Major Burns

• Burns in Children

• Priorities in Trauma management

• Severe head trauma

• Genito-urinary trauma
• Pelvic Trauma
• Retrograde urethrogram, Retrograde cystogram
• Penetrating Neck Trauma
• Penetrating Truncal trauma
• Penetrating thoracic trauma
• Penetrating abdominal trauma

TOXICOLOGY

• Salicylate
• Cyanide
• Carbon Monoxide
• Toxic inhalations 

ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE

• Decompression sickness (DCS)
• Arterial gas embolism
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
• Hypothermia
• Near drowning (Immersion injury)
• Treating life-threatening hyperthermia
• Major heat illnesses - heat exhaustion/heat stroke
• Hypothermia (Warming Strategies)
• Hyperthermia (Cooling strategies)

MENTAL HEALTH

• Physical restraint
• Chemical restraint

PAEDIATRICS

• Neonatal Resuscitation