The Sexual History Assessing Condom Use Pregnancy Risk and Symptoms
Philippa Matthews
0.5 Hours
This session explains how to use the sexual history to assess condom use, pregnancy risk, and future risk of acquiring STIs. This session has been written in conjunction with Sexual Health in Practice (SHIP). Please see acknowledgements for more details. This session was reviewed by Philippa Matthews and last updated in January....
Sleep Problems In Adolescence
Kathy Phipps BM DRCOG MRCGP (Late) GP Principal and Trainer and Emma Park GP Principal
0.5 Hours
This session gives an overview of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features and management of sleep disorders in adolescence.
Typical Development Part 1: From Birth to Babble
John Oates - Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Child and Youth Studies, the Open University
0.5 Hours
This session is about the course of typical language development from birth to about 1 year of age.
Teenage Parents
Jenny McLeish, Cindy Hutchinson and Joanna Seth-Smith
0.5 Hours
This session looks at teenage pregnancy rates in the UK and identifies the associated risk factors. It explores health outcomes faced by young parents and their children with recommendations as to how health professionals can help improve the lives of young families.
The CVS and Sites for Drug Effects
Tom Simpson
0.5 Hours
This session describes the basic anatomy of the cardiovascular system and the action sites of agents frequently encountered in day-to-day anaesthetic practice.
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) in Children
Peter Young
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the assessment and management of children with urinary tract infection (UTI).
Tics and Twitches
Mary Robertson
0.5 Hours
This session will help to recognise tics and related behaviours in children.
Techniques and Equipment
Li Tee Tan
0.75 Hours
This session describes the equipment and techniques available for image-guided brachytherapy for cervix cancer.
Secondary Headache
Callum Duncan and John Hughes
0.5 Hours
This session describes the presentation and investigation of patients with a headache that has an underlying pathological cause.
Sexual Health Risk Assessment
Annabel Shepherd
0.5 Hours
This session covers sexual history taking to assess pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
Wounds and Soft Tissue Injuries: Gunshot and Blast Injuries
Aaron McLean and Henry Nnajiuba
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the basic physics of wound ballistics and the injury patterns expected with different types of firearms and ammunition. This session also provides an overview of injury patterns from bomb blast.
Tourniquet use including Indications, Effects and Complications
Tim Sparks
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the advantages, contraindications and potential complications for the use of tourniquets.
Varicocoele: Key Facts, Imaging and Treatment
Graeme Houston
0.5 Hours
This session covers the interventional radiological treatment of male varicocele and female pelvic varices.
Shoulder Impingement
Andrew Redfern and Alun Davies
0.75 Hours
This session discusses the imaging of rotator cuff pathology.
Unifacet Dislocation
Catherine McCarthy
0.75 Hours
This session reviews normal anatomy and radiographic features of cervical facet joints. Cervical facet joint injury is discussed, differentiating between perched facets, unilateral and bilateral facet joint dislocation. Imaging appearances on plain radiographs, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are de....
Sportsperson with a Painful Elbow
Andrew Grainger
0.5 Hours
This session deals with the most common causes of elbow pain in the athlete and their imaging findings. Although targeted at the sportsperson, many of the conditions discussed will be seen in the less athletic population.
The Painful Stiff Spine
Sonya Snape
0.75 Hours
This session is a review of plain film, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging features of ankylosing spondylitis and its differential diagnoses with reference to the relevant anatomy and pathophysiology.
Tendon Disease
Alastair Forrester
0.75 Hours
This session will first look at normal tendon structure and function; thereafter tendon pathology will be discussed with particular reference to the effects of ageing.
Small Bowel: GI Stromal Tumours (Hollow Organ and Mesentery)
Dafydd Richards
0.5 Hours
This session illustrates the various imaging features of gastro-intestinal stromal tumours (GISTs). The role of imaging in the management of GISTs as well as the criteria for differentiating benign from malignant tumours will be illustrated and the differential diagnosis discussed.
Techniques: Ultrasound of the Prostate, Penis and Urethra
Grant Baxter
0.5 Hours
This session describes the ultrasonic investigation of the urethra, penis and prostate, how best to perform this and the normal appearances of these structures.
Techniques: Ultrasound of the Urinary Tract
Grant Baxter
0.5 Hours
This session describes the ultrasound investigation of the kidneys, renal arteries and the bladder.
Testicular Problems in Childhood (Pain, Masses and the Undescended Testis)
John Somers
0.75 Hours
This session will describe the normal development of the testis and place pathological conditions into this context. It will show how radiology can assist in diagnosis and management of testicular problems in children.
Secondary Stroke Prevention
Joanna Wardlaw
0.5 Hours
This session details the use of imaging for secondary stroke prevention, in particular, the role of carotid imaging prior to carotid endarterectomy.
Ultrasound Contrast Agents
David Cosgrove and Robert Eckersley
0.5 Hours
This is a session on diagnostic microbubble contrast agents for radiologists.
Ultrasound: Transducers and Beam Forming
Tony Evans
0.75 Hours
This session discusses the use of piezoelectric transducers to create and detect ultrasound. The choice of frequency and transducer size are seen as key elements in determining image quality, particularly spatial resolution. The influence of ultrasound beam focusing is also revealed and discussed.