Dealing with emergencies in primary care: nosebleeds, anaphylaxis, back pain-related emergencies and requests for emergency contraception

Are you aware of the recommended steps in managing anaphylaxis on your surgery premises? When could back pain be an emergency? Find out with this episode of the Clinical Update podcast, discussing just a few of the potential emergencies that you could encounter as a GP.

After listening to this podcast, healthcare professionals should be better able to:

• Reflect on management of epistaxis
• Recall the current recommendations from the Resuscitation Council UK on the management of anaphylaxis
• Identify when back pain should be treated as an emergency
• Recall key considerations around supply of emergency contraception

You can access the website version of this podcast on MIMS Learning to make notes for your appraisal. MIMS Learning offers hundreds of hours of CPD for healthcare professionals, along with a handy CPD organiser.

Please note: this podcast is presented by medical editors and discusses educational content written or presented by doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals on the MIMS Learning website and at live events.

Useful links

Resources from MIMS Learning

Choices in emergency contraception

Acute low back pain: initial presentation to primary care

Guidance update: anaphylaxis

Chest pain - red flag symptoms

Epistaxis - red flag symptoms

External resources

NHS. Chest pain. August 2023.

BSACI. Adrenaline auto-injector prescription for patients at risk of anaphylaxis: BSACI guidance for primary care. June 2023.

BASS. Cauda equina syndrome. Accessed November 2024.

Champions Charity. Cauda equina syndrome red flags. Accessed November 2024.

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