Unexplained Physical Symptoms
Elena Garralda
This session will describe common physical symptoms and their associations with psychological problems. General management principles will be provided for use by both non-medical and medical practitioners.
Optimisation of Outcomes in Patients with Burns
Sarah Al-Himdani and Tom Potokar
This session will identify the factors that commonly influence outcome for patients with major burns. Later, it will explore the link between healing time and quality of healing and explain how it is possible to optimise healing for patients with burns.
Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Part 3)
Nick Cooley and Greg Scutt and Paul Wade
0.50 Hours
The aim of this session is to promote rational use of antibiotics in optimising treatment of patients with infections and reducing emergence of antibiotic resistance. The risks of developing Clostridium difficile will be explained.
Developing a Transition Programme
Janet McDonagh, Anita Morgan and Marcelle Sousa
This session considers the key steps involved in the development of a transitional care programme for young people with long-term conditions and/or disabilities.
Prevention Strategies
Wendi Murphy
0.50 Hours
Since some high-profile cases, agencies that deal with young people have an increased responsibility to work with each other to prevent substance misuse. This session outlines some of those responsibilities and suggests ways to identify young people at risk of substance misuse and put in place prevention strategies.
Adolescent Presenting with Intoxication
Katherine Teasdale
0.50 Hours
This session follows the case of a teenager presenting to hospital intoxicated. It develops with allegations of sexual assault. Concerns regarding risk of sexual exploitation emerge. Identification and management of the safeguarding issues are explored.
Safeguarding Children - Moving Up
Jane Wright
0.50 Hours
This session is aimed at a universal audience and will explore the transition from primary school to secondary school. It will discuss the factors that may impact on this transition and the role of services to support children with particular physical, developmental, emotional or social needs.
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....