Safeguarding Children - Introduction to Special Educational Needs
Gabriel Whitlingum
0.50 Hours
This session gives an overview of the different types of special educational needs and barriers to learning.
Paediatric - Epilepsy
Kirsten Johnson and Colin Dunkley
This more advanced session will give you an understanding of childhood epilepsies and epilepsy care, so you will have the knowledge and confidence to make a positive difference to a child living with the condition and understand your role in the child’s ongoing care.
Paediatric - wetting
June Rogers
0.50 Hours
This session will help practitioners become aware of bladder problems in children and young people, and to understand the implications continence problems can have on both the child and family as well as the wider community.
Paediatric - Headaches
Ishaq Abu-Arafeh
0.50 Hours
Headache is an important and common health problem for children that may lead to school absence and educational underachievement. This session will introduce the common causes of headache, their presentation and the treatment options. This session will also help in better understanding of the impact of headache on child's social....
Ring Shadows
Louise Sweeney
0.50 Hours
This session is designed to illustrate the appearance on imaging of the various types of ring shadows and correlate the appearance with the clinical presentation.
Renal Cysts
Rose de Bruyn
0.75 Hours
This session will classify and discuss the common hereditary and non-hereditary cystic renal conditions likely to be encountered in children.
Precocious Puberty
Kieran McHugh
0.25 Hours
This session covers the definitions and recommended imaging of both true and pseudo-precocious puberty (PP).
Cerebral Venous Disease
Amy Gerrish
0.50 Hours
This session will cover the spectrum of diseases of the cerebral venous system and will include venous sinus thrombosis (VST) and its complications, dural venous anomalies and transverse sinus stenosis.
Degenerative Lumbar Spine Disease
Verka Beric and Paul Butler
1.00 Hours
Degenerative disease of the spine affects most of the population at some point in their lives. The myriad imaging findings and the non-specific symptoms make this a difficult area for clinicians to treat easily. The radiologist’s role is to document the important features that may be responsible for the presenting complaint whil....
Paediatric Bone: Upper Body
Isky Gordon
0.50 Hours
This session covers the skull, axial skeleton and upper limbs of paediatric bone scans.
Advanced MRI Sequences and Techniques
Stephen Nicholas
0.50 Hours
This session covers the concepts of advanced two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensionsal (3D) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences based on spin-echo (SE) and gradient-echo (GE) techniques.
Diffusion and Perfusion MRI
Stephen Gandy
0.50 Hours
This session describes the basic physics of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diffusion and perfusion techniques.
Communication: Use of Language to Explain Procedures - Radiology
The London Deanery and Stephen Ellis
0.50 Hours
This session looks at a range of clinical situations and explores how some of the barriers to effective information sharing can be overcome.
Partnerships with Colleagues
The London Deanery, Stephen Ellis
0.50 Hours
This session explores various ways in which healthcare staff can work successfully in a multidisciplinary team.
Research for Radiology SpRs
Philip Robinson
0.50 Hours
This session will give a brief overview of the points to consider, as a specialist registrar, when embarking on a radiology research project or paper.
Oesophageal Doppler - Anesthesiology
Robert Kong
0.50 Hours
This session describes how to use an oesophageal Doppler machine, the basic techniques of acquiring the aortic waveform to measure flow and how to interpret specific variables.
Anaesthesia for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Uwe Franke and Leo Jeyaraj
0.50 Hours
This session gives an overview of COPD and explains the specific implications for anaesthesia of patients with COPD.
Rheumatoid Arthritis - Anesthesiology
Tarkeshwari Mane and Ashish Gulve
0.50 Hours
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic, autoimmune inflammatory disorder of unknown aetiology mainly involving joints but also with systemic effects. These extra-articular manifestations occur in more than 50% of patients. Both the articular and systemic manifestations have important anaesthetic implications. This sess....
Anaesthesia and Myasthenia Gravis
Steven Williams and Jason Easby
0.50 Hours
This session provides an outline of the pathophysiology and treatment of myasthenia gravis and discusses the profound implications that myasthenia gravis has for anaesthesia. There is also discussion of the pre-operative assessment, intra-operative management and post-operative care of patients with myasthenia gravis.
Anaesthetic Implications of Obesity
Cat Gibson
0.50 Hours
This session provides a definition of obesity, describes the effect of obesity on the various organ systems, highlights its association with other co-morbidities and discusses the implications of obesity for anaesthesia.
Postoperative Analgesia: Basic Principles and Analgesic Ladder
Edward Burdett and Yogen Amin
0.50 Hours
This session will describe the importance of postoperative analgesia, with emphasis on multimodal analgesia, together with some commonly encountered techniques. The analgesic ladder will be described.
Anaesthesia for a Child With Cerebral Palsy
Graham Bell
0.50 Hours
This session will outline the principles of anaesthesia for children with cerebral palsy presenting for elective surgery. It will cover how the severity of cerebral palsy directly affects the techniques chosen
AC and BC Audiometry
Kirpa Chandan
0.50 Hours
This session details how sound travels via both air and bone conduction. It details the full procedures for carrying out unmasked air and bone conduction audiometry.
Preparing for Audit
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
0.25 Hours
This session is the first of a two part module about how best to carry out a clinical audit. This first session looks specifically at preparing an audit, using the topic of smoking cessation as an example.
Parental Relationships Part 2: Practical Methods of Assessment and Support
Jan Mitcheson
0.25 Hours
This session is designed to help you recognise and respond appropriately to relationship stress between parents. It provides you with some simple tools that will help you to explore with parents their understanding of what is happening in their relationship, and to look at what they might be able to do to strengthen their relati....