0.5 Hours
This session aims to help you understand how to take a history and provide services to young people who may have been victims of sexual assault.
0.5 Hours
This session describes the process through which children gain continence. In addition this session also covers the recognition and management of common problems.
0.5 Hours
This session allows the learner to consider how communication issues, hearing and visual impairments are common and important factors in the assessment of changing clinical situations, where underlying diagnosis may be multi-factorial.
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....
0.5 Hours
This session gives an overview of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features and management of sleep disorders in adolescence.
0.5 Hours
This session is about the course of typical language development from birth to about 1 year of age.
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.
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.
0.5 Hours
This session aims to outline the role and importance of good support and care planning for a person and their carer. This session was reviewed by Tes Smith and Richard Kitchen and last updated in February 2018.
0.5 Hours
This session deals with treating your patients as equal partners in the decisions reached about their treatment, while meeting clinical needs and desires. This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in August 2014.
0.5 Hours
This session builds on the school entry health assessment in session Surveillance and Health Promotion (411-004). It focuses on the care plan development necessary for children with identified additional health and social needs (Universal Plus and Universal Partnership Plus) following a more in-depth, holistic assessment of the....
0.5 Hours
This session will explore the key aspects of a 21st century school health service, describing the multidisciplinary team involved in achieving optimum health for all school children aged between 5 and 12 years. It will contextualise the development of the school health team and its transition to modern day public health pract....
0.25 Hours
This session works through a scenario concerning a patient with sudden loss of vision.
0.5 Hours
This session looks at what makes children socially vulnerable, including factors in the child, the parents, the family and wider society.
0.5 Hours
This session defines syncope and outlines the common causes of syncope in the elderly. It shows the overlap between falls and syncope and describes the initial evaluation of an elderly patient with syncope.
0.25 Hours
This session discusses toxic shock syndrome its diagnosis and treatment.
0.25 Hours
This session presents principles of arterial anatomy based on clinical presentation of stroke.
0.25 Hours
This session gives an overview of uncompensated vestibular disorders.
0.5 Hours
This session will look at the following modes of volume controlled ventilation, pressure limited volume controlled ventilation, assist control ventilation, synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation and gives an explanation of when each one would be used.
0.5 Hours
This session will describe the definition, causes, diagnosis, management and prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia.
0.5 Hours
This session covers the secondary survey of a patient with multiple injuries.
0.5 Hours
This session provides the opportunity to learn how to choose an appropriate statistical test for the common types of research projects. It also enables you to recognize if an appropriate test has been used in a journal article.
0.5 Hours
This session describes the process of setting-up and interpreting a statistical test of a clinical hypothesis.
0.5 Hours
Tracheal tubes are widely used in anaesthesia to provide gas transfer between a breathing system and a patient’s trachea. This module will help you to understand the design and use of standard tracheal tubes. You will also be introduced to variants of the tracheal tube which have been modified for use in different clinical situa....