Ethics and Medical Errors
Medical Education Systems, Inc.
30 Hours
Most Americans have grown up having the utmost respect for the medical profession and what it has accomplished over the decades. The family doctor who could fix anything became a fixture in our society. If “doc” said you needed something, then that is what you got. People not only didn’t worry about the their healthcare, they di....
Osteoporosis
Anne Sutcliffe Healthcare and Education Officer, The National Association for the Relief of Paget's
0.5 Hours
This session examines a range of risk factors for osteoporosis and considers appropriate investigations and treatment options for the disease. Lifestyle implications are also discussed.
Primary School Presentations
Alyson Hall Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, The Child and Family Practice and Honorar
0.5 Hours
This session gives an overview of common emotional and behavioural presentations in children in primary school (5 to 11 years old). It offers guidelines to assess and address parental concerns. We discuss symptoms that suggest there may be important underlying problems (alarm bells) and provide guidance for when you identify the....
Parenting Support Part 1: Definitions and Concepts
Doreen Crawford Senior Lecturer, De Montfort University, Leicester
0.5 Hours
This session introduces the concept of a supportive relationship between healthcare professionals and parents and looks at the key elements of some of the leading parenting programmes that may be used for this purpose.
Error Wisdom and Patient Safety
Jane Carthey Patient Safety and Human Factors Specialist and Christine Johnson General Practitione
0.5 Hours
This session will improve your understanding of how frontline healthcare staff can thwart patient safety incidents using the Three Buckets model. This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in January 2015.
Pre-pregnancy Counselling
Melissa Sayer
0.5 Hours
This session looks at the importance of pre-conception care and advice. It highlights the importance of maternal health and well-being prior to pregnancy. At the end of the session you should be confident to advise women about health issues relevant to conception and pregnancy.
Developments in the management of diabetic ketoacidosis in adults: implications for anaesthetists
A Hallett MBChB FRCA, A Modi MBBS MD FRCA and N Levy MBBS BSc FRCA FFICM
0.5 Hours
DKA can occur in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus and, although preventable, it remains a frequent and life-threatening complication. Errors in the management of DKA are not uncommon and are associated with significant morbidity and mortality.
ESH/ESC Guidelines for the Management of Arterial Hypertension
European Heart Journal (2013)
0.5 Hours
The 2013 guidelines on hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) follow the guidelines jointly issued by the two societies in 2003 and 2007.
Childhood Sepsis
James Larcombe
0.5 Hours
This session covers children aged 11 years and under. For children aged 12 years and over refer to the adult session. The session is aimed at all out of hospital clinicians, GPs, Nurses, Paramedics, Community Midwives and those providing urgent or unscheduled care. It will provide an introduction to key facts about childho....
CEACCP: Diastolic dysfunction
Rik Kapila FRCA and Ravi P Mahajan DM FRCA
0.5 Hours
Diastolic dysfunction (DD) is increasingly being recognized as an important cause of heart failure. Often the condition may not be anticipated and difficult to differentiate from systolic dysfunction when symptoms develop. This article describes the pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnosis, and management of the condition.
CEACCP: Right ventricular failure
Leo G. Kevin and Matthew Barnard
0.5 Hours
Whilst failure of the left ventricle (LV) has been the subject of intense interest for decades, failure of the right ventricle (RV) has tended to receive scant attention. Indeed, the RV was long considered a relatively passive conduit for blood flow between the systemic and pulmonary circulations.
Overview of immunosuppression in liver transplantation
Anjana A Pillai and Josh Levitsky
0.5 Hours
Continued advances in surgical techniques and immunosuppressive therapy have allowed liver transplantation to become an extremely successful treatment option for patients with end-stage liver disease. Beginning with the revolutionary discovery of cyclosporine in the 1970s, immunosuppressive regimens have evolved greatly and curr....
CT Anatomy: Lobes, Segments and Airways
Siobhan Green and Sujal Desai
0.5 Hours
The thorax is comprised of the structures of the mediastinum and lungs; mediastinal structures are linked to the lungs through the hila. This session introduces you to the normal computed tomography (CT) appearance of these structures.
Abdominal Trauma
Nanda Venkatanarasimha and Bruce Fox
0.5 Hours
This session describes the abdominal trauma seen in clinical practice the imaging appearances of different organ injury.
Classifications for Antiarrhythmic Drugs
Kirstin Wilkinson and Richard Cope
0.5 Hours
This session reviews the physiology of the cardiac action potential and describes the methods of arrhythmia generation. It also defines the classification methods available for arrhythmias along with the positive and negative attributes of each.
Coronary Circulation
Andrew Klein and Erik Ortmann
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the functional anatomy and physiology of the coronary circulation during the cardiac cycle. It describes the different phases and regulatory mechanisms of coronary blood flow.
Oesophageal Doppler Cardiac Output Monitoring
Peter Anderson and Robert Kong
0.5 Hours
This session will cover the basic principles underlying oesophageal Doppler cardiac output monitoring, the practicalities of use of the monitor and clinical applications.
Capacity and Difficult Consent
Ginny Wright and Binita Jani
0.5 Hours
This session describes clinical scenarios involving patients with complex medical and ethical problems relating to consent, which clinicians will find challenging.
Cardiac Output Monitoring I
Sharon Avery and Max Jonas
0.5 Hours
This session aims to provide a rationale behind cardiac output monitoring and a sound understanding of the physiological principles behind the available technology.
Physiology of Exercise and CPX Testing
Claire Dunstan
0.5 Hours
This session covers the physiology of exercise including the role of cardiopulmonary exercise (CPX) testing.
Characteristics of Clinical Proton Beams
David Eaton
0.25 Hours
The session describes the major characteristics of proton beams, how they differ from photon beams, and their potential clinical consequences.
Organising your practice to support carers
Chantal Simon
0.5 Hours
Carers experience health, social and financial problems as a result of their role. They are more likely to have seen their GP recently than any other support professional, and so it is vital for GPs within primary care teams to know how to identify and support carers in order to maintain the health of the carer, and to preserve....
Acute and Late Effects of Proton Treatments
Rovel Colaco
0.5 Hours
This session outlines how acute and late toxicities may differ between proton and photon radiotherapy, and the potential for proton beam therapy (PBT) to reduce some late radiation related side effects. It explains the rationale for clearly defined patient follow-up schedules with careful collection of tumour and toxicity outcom....
Radiation Protection for Proton Beams
David Lines and Mark Hardy
0.5 Hours
This session describes the principles of radiation protection relating to the delivery of proton beam therapy (PBT). It highlights the key differences between PBT and photon radiotherapy from a radiation protection perspective and gives an overview of practical considerations required for a clinical PBT centre.