Surgical emergencies are a reliable scoring opportunity in the FRCEM Final SBA — if you know the current guidelines. They're also where candidates lose marks fastest, because the guidance is fragmented across NICE, BSG, WSES, ESVS, EAU and the surgical royal colleges. This ebook pulls 30 of them together into one exam-focused reference.
Every chapter is written in the same peer-to-peer voice as the rest of EM Final Exams.
What's inside
- 30 surgical emergencies distilled for FRCEM Final SBA yield
- Sourced from NICE, BSG, WSES, ESVS and EAU — no out-of-date pathways
- Key Points · Common Mistakes · Exam Focus per topic
- SBA-ready — chapters map directly to exam-style questions
- 163 pages, structured chapters, fully bookmarked contents
- Updated May 2026 against current UK guidance
Topics include
Acute appendicitis · Ruptured AAA · Acute pancreatitis · Bowel obstruction · Upper GI bleeding · Lower GI bleeding · Diverticulitis · Cholecystitis and biliary colic · Acute mesenteric ischaemia · Testicular torsion · Renal colic and ureteric stones · Acute urinary retention · Hernias · Anorectal emergencies · Perforated viscus — and more.
Who it's for
EM trainees sitting the FRCEM Final SBA, plus ACPs and ED clinicians who want one clean reference for surgical presentations in the ED.
Format
Single PDF, bookmarked contents, peer-to-peer voice.
Get this — and the whole library — with EMF Premium
Don't buy this one on its own. EMF Premium gets you the entire revision library in a single subscription:
- NICE Guidelines — 364 pages of high-yield NICE guidance for the FRCEM & MRCEM
- RCEM Guidelines — 223 pages of RCEM Best Practice, distilled for SBAs
- RCEM Position Statements — 37 pages of the ethics, workforce and safety positions examiners draw from
- Paediatric Emergency Medicine — 164 pages mapped to RCEM SLO9
- Surgical Emergencies — 163 pages of the surgical SBAs candidates lose marks on
- Major Trauma — 124 pages mapped to RCEM SLO5
- Specialty Emergencies — 260 pages of RCOG, BTS, JBDS, RCOphth and ENT UK guidance
That's over 1,300 pages of exam-aligned content, kept current with UK guidance, with new ebooks and resources added through your exam year.
Buy them individually and the maths is over £130. EMF Premium gets you everything for a single subscription.