Pathway to Diagnosing Interstitial Lung Disease
Melissa Heightman
0.25 Hours
Having established a history, examination, and chest x-ray (CXR) that suggest a possibility of interstitial lung disease (ILD) as a diagnosis, this session will identify subsequent appropriate investigations to establish a more precise diagnosis.
Polycystic Kidney Disease
Salman Sajid
0.5 Hours
This session considers the common clinical problems associated with adult polycystic kidney disease, outlines screening options and offers strategies to prevent further complications of the disease.
Cross-cultural Communication
Joe Kai and Jackie Beavan
0.5 Hours
This session considers how cultural differences between doctor and patient may create uncertainty that can reduce the effectiveness of the consultation. This can be recognised and overcome to enhance the consultation. This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in July 2014.
Causes of Acute Spinal Cord Compression
Imtiaz Shah
0.25 Hours
This session discusses the causes of acute spinal cord compression.
Checking the anaesthetic machine
Tom Clutton-Brock
0.5 Hours
The session covers the essential checks that should be undertaken before using an anaesthetic machine, guidelines for using each type of machine and how to use emergency gas supplies.
Checking Other Anaesthetic Equipment
Vennila Rajagopal
0.5 Hours
The session covers the essentials of checking the breathing systems and additional equipment required to administer a safe anaesthetic.
Cardiovascular Physiology - The Cardiovascular System (anaesthesia)
Fred Roberts FRCA
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the essential features and physiological principles of the cardiovascular system that are relevant to anaesthesia.
Respiratory Physiology (anaesthesia)
Fred Roberts FRCA
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the essential features and physiological principles of the respiratory system, as relevant to anaesthesia.
Oxygen Therapy
Gavin Perkins and Vivekanathan Poongavanam
0.5 Hours
Oxygen is one of the most commonly used drugs in the hospital, especially in patients with or at risk of critical illness. This session will outline the principles of safe oxygen administration in critically ill patients.
Analgesia and Antiemetics
Jeremy Nightingale
0.5 Hours
This session will cover the assessment and treatment of post-operative pain and management of early post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV).
Predictors of Critical Illness and Scoring Systems
John Griffiths and Joy Halliday
0.5 Hours
This session defines the mortality rate for patients admitted to ICUs in the UK and discusses important aspects of severity of illness scoring systems that are applied to this population. This session also looks at the longer-term non-mortality outcomes experienced by ICU survivors such as overall health-related quality of life,....
Assessment of Physical Symptoms
Sarah Yardley
0.5 Hours
Assessment of physical wellbeing is one of the four core areas (also known as domains) of a holistic assessment. In this session you will explore assessment of physical symptoms and how this may interact with the other aspects of a holistic assessment. This session was reviewed by Sarah Yardley and Christina Faull and last updat....
CEACCP: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in adults
Guillermo Martinez MD and Alain Vuylsteke MD FRCA FFICM
0.5 Hours
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is the use of a modified heart–lung machine to provide respiratory, circulatory, or both support at the bedside, usually for at least a number of days or even weeks.
CEACCP: Principles of intra-aortic balloon pump counterpulsation
Murli Krishna MBBS FRCA FFPMRCA Kai Zacharowski MD PhD FRCA
0.5 Hours
Intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) remains the most widely used circulatory assist device in critically ill patients with cardiac disease. The National Centre of Health Statistics estimated that IABP was used in 42 000 patients in the USA in 2002. Advances in technology, including percutaneous insertion, smaller diameter cathete....
CEACCP: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Andrew David Pitkin MRCP Nicholas John Hawksley Davies DM MRCP FRCA
0.5 Hours
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases arterial oxygen content by greatly increasing the amount of oxygen dissolved in plasma.
Diarrhoea in ICM
Simon Sparkes
0.5 Hours
This session describes the common causes of diarrhoea in critical care and includes infection control practices, management strategies and the complications that can occur.
Constipation in ICM
Simon Sparkes
0.5 Hours
This session describes the common causes of constipation in critical care, management strategies and the complications that can occur.
CEACCP: Diagnosis of brain death
John Oram MB ChB FRCA DICM (UK) and Paul Murphy MA (Cantab) FRCA
0.5 Hours
The diagnosis, confirmation, and certification of death are core skills for medical practitioners in the UK. Although the confirmation of death remains relatively straightforward in the majority of circumstances, developments in advanced resuscitation techniques together with the continuing recognition of the medical benefits of....
BJA Education: Hypertension in pregnancy
D Leslie BSc (Hons) MBBCh (Hons) FRCA and RE Collis MB BS FRCA MSc
0.5 Hours
Chronic hypertension is defined as hypertension (systolic blood pressure ≥140 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mm Hg) present at the booking visit or before 20 weeks’ gestation, or if the patient is already taking antihypertensive medication.
Acute Coronary Syndromes
Jason Kendall and Elizabeth Florey
0.5 Hours
This session is about the pathophysiology of acute coronary syndromes, defining acute myocardial infarction and recognising the various presentations and clinical features associated with acute coronary syndromes.
CEACCP: Ethicolegal aspects of organ donation
Paul Murphy BA FRCA and John Adams MA MRCP FRCA
0.5 Hours
Deceased organ donation is frequently considered to lie at the interface between a critical care clinician’s primary and non-negotiable obligations to the care of a dying or dead patient and a broader and less well-defined responsibility towards society’s need for suitable donor organs for transplantation.
Assessment of Social and Occupational Well-being
Amanda Poppleton
0.5 Hours
This session considers the importance of addressing social and occupational needs for patients at the end of life. As well as considering when and how to assess, you will be introduced to a framework to assist you in formulating achievable goals with patients. This session was reviewed by Rachel Atkinson and Christina Faull and....
CEACCP: Pathophysiology of chronic renal failure
Quentin Milner MB ChB FRCA
0.5 Hours
This review will concentrate on the more common pathophysiological changes of relevance to anaesthesia. Despite impressive medical advances, the overall 4-year survival for patients with ESRD in the UK is only 48%.
Acute Myeloid Leukaemia - Complications and Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
Jenny Briggs
0.5 Hours
This session describes the complications of AML and its treatment, which may require critical care input. It also covers how concurrent haematopoietic stem cell transplant and chemotherapy treatment may impact critical illness.