Pain Management in Children
Kevin Dark
0.5 Hours
This session will explore the most common causes of pain in children and explain why children experience pain differently to adults. Later, it will offer guidance on how to assess and manage pain in children of different ages.
Pharmacological Cancer Pain Management
Jayne Wood
0.5 Hours
This session describes the principles of the pharmacological management of cancer pain including a review of strong opioids and adjuvant analgesics.
Recognising Patients Nearing End of Life
Claire Norman
0.5 Hours
This session aims to develop a comprehensive approach to recognising that patients are nearing end of life. This will include a number of case studies at the end of the session.
Pain in Cancer Survivors
Matthew Brown
0.5 Hours
This session describes the interventions that are available to treat cancer and which are associated with the development of persistent pain in cancer survivors.
Pattern Recognition
Kerry Crawley
0.5 Hours
The aim of this session is to provide a brief overview of pattern recognition as a model of clinical decision making and how this may be applied to practice.
Abnormal Vulvovaginal Symptoms
Jane Dickson
0.5 Hours
This session will help you to assess, diagnose and manage women presenting with common abnormal vulvovaginal symptoms.
Best Practice in Acute and Chronic Pain Management
Al Cromack
0.5 Hours
This session will explore the evidence base for paramedic pain management, including when it is appropriate for paramedics to administer analgesics. Later, it will investigate the guidelines that inform paramedic pain management and the role of splinting as a way for paramedics to relieve pain
Crouzon Syndrome
Vikram Sharma and Hiroshi Nishikawa
0.5 Hours
This session will explain the embryological and anatomical basis of Crouzon syndrome. Later, it will describe the clinical features associated with Crouzon syndrome and outline the surgical techniques that can be used to correct Crouzon syndrome.
Reconstruction of the Cheek
Michael McBride and Sarah Pape
0.5 Hours
This session will describe the range of procedures available for cheek reconstruction and offer guidance on how to avoid, recognise and treat the complications associated with each procedure.
Cryptotia
Tejpal Ralmill, Herjyot Dharni and Gregory O'Toole
0.5 Hours
This session will explain the embryological and anatomical basis of cryptotia and describe the clinical findings. Later, it will describe and explain the techniques that can be used to correct cryptotia.
Assessment of the Injured Globe, Eyelids and Orbit
Jeffry Hogg and Lucy Clarke
0.5 Hours
This session will describe a systematic approach to examination of the injured globe, eyelids and orbit and offer guidance on how to investigate patients with such injuries.
Anatomy of the Arm
Jerome Edet and James Colville
0.5 Hours
This session explores the detailed and surface anatomy of the arm, and explains why an understanding of the anatomy of this area is important to the plastic surgeon.
Outcome Measures in Severe Lower Limb Trauma
Benjamin Baker and Anuj Mishra
0.5 Hours
This session will explain how the outcome following lower limb trauma can be measured. Later sections will compare the use of questionnaires and functioning scores and explain how the status of adjacent joints can affect outcome following lower limb fracture.
Burns and Epilepsy
Fergal Marlborough and Sarah Pape
0.5 Hours
This session will explore the link between burns and epilepsy and describe the investigations required for burn patients with uncontrolled epilepsy. Later, it will describe how patients with epilepsy can reduce the risk of future accidental burns.
Propofol: An Overview - Anesthesiology
Jayantha Jayasuriya
0.5 Hours
This session will describe the indications for the use of propofol, its formulation and dosage, metabolic fate in the body and its effects on the different systems of the body. The side effects and contraindications of propofol will also be discussed.
Apnoeic Oxygenation and Differential Equations
Steven Cruickshank
0.5 Hours
This session focuses on apnoea and the process of modelling the physiology of apnoea. This uses simple mathematics to answer some fundamental questions about what happens when a patient stops breathing.
Asthma - Anesthesiology
Leo Jeyaraj and Vicky Irvine
0.5 Hours
This session is designed to give the reader an overview of asthma and its implications for anaesthesia.
Opioids In Paediatrics - Anesthesiology
Andrew R Wolf
0.5 Hours
This session looks at practical opioid pharmacology applied to the clinical use of different agents for neonates, infants and small children.
Autism & Nutraceuticals
Ms Elizabeth Strickland MS, RD, LD
The number of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is growing worldwide. Over the past 5 years significant advances have been made in identifying several genetic and environmental risk factors for developing ASD. Some of this new emerging research investigates the role of nutraceuticals in treating ASD and su....
Relapse Prevention Therapy
Yvonne Martinez, CADC-CS, ICCS, ICADC, NCAC-I, CRPS
3 Hours
Relapse Prevention Therapy utilizes a cognitive-behavioral analysis of addictive behaviors and begins with the assessment of a client’s potential interpersonal, intrapersonal, environmental and physiological risks for relapse and the unique set of factors and situations that may directly precipitate a lapse. Once potential relap....
Advanced Pulmonary Therapeutics: Pneumonia
Mark A. Malesker, PharmD, FCCP, FASHP, BCPS
This course will Review the current guidelines for the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults. Looking at the current guidelines for the management of adults with hospital-acquired, ventilator-acquired and healthcare-associated pneumonia. This e-learning will compare and contrast recommended antibiotic treatments r....
Personal Effectiveness Principles Session 7: Personal Laws and Relationship Patterns - the Keys to Freedom
Jim Morningstar, PhD
1 Hours
Find your “personal law” and sort out six major relationship patterns in yourself and others; use their strengths whileminimizing their limiting influences.
Advanced Pulmonary Therapeutics: Pulmonary Hypertension
Daniel Hilleman, Pharm.D, FCCP
This e-learning will describe pulmonary hypertension (PH) and the clinical classification of PH. Looking into detail at the pathophysiology and clinical presentation of PH, the management strategies for PH based on the clinical classification of PH. This course will familiarize the participant with therapeutic use of the drugs t....
Advanced Pulmonary Therapeutics: Smoking Cessation
Daniel Hilleman, Pharm.D, FCCP
This course will overlook the current prevalence of smoking in the US and the negative health impact of tobacco dependence. Tobacco dependence is seen as a chronic disease, this e-learning will describe the various clinical interventions for smoking cessation in users willing to quit and tobacco control as a smoking deterrent.....
Body Aliveness Series Seminar 5: Gender Balanced
Jim Morningstar, PhD
4 Hours
During the third to fifth year of life gender identity is being reinforced. How role confusion is introduced and themes like "If I assert myself spontaneously, Iʼll be rejected," are taken on and perpetuated is explained. Both male and female patterns of exaggerated compensation are displayed. The family messages, body language....