Wound Excision for Open Fractures of the Lower Limb
Jolyon May and Simon Myers
0.50 Hours
This session describes how to excise open fractures of the lower limb, including the steps needed to cleanse, assess and debride the wound and how to expose, assess and debride the bone.
Surface Anatomy of the Neck and Clavicular Region
David Ashton-Cleary
This session is designed to help you gain a better understanding of surface anatomy relevant to everyday anaesthetic procedures such as central venous access and brachial plexus blockade.
Varicocoele: Key Facts, Imaging and Treatment
Graeme Houston
0.50 Hours
This session covers the interventional radiological treatment of male varicocele and female pelvic varices.
Unifacet Dislocation
Catherine McCarthy
0.75 Hours
This session reviews normal anatomy and radiographic features of cervical facet joints. Cervical facet joint injury is discussed, differentiating between perched facets, unilateral and bilateral facet joint dislocation. Imaging appearances on plain radiographs, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are de....
Sexual Health Risk Assessment
Annabel Shepherd
0.50 Hours
This session covers sexual history taking to assess pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
Secondary Headache
Callum Duncan and John Hughes
0.50 Hours
This session describes the presentation and investigation of patients with a headache that has an underlying pathological cause.
Symptom Management
Louise Pennington
0.50 Hours
This session aims to provide the learner with an understanding of the principles of caring for a person with a palliative illness who has symptom control issues causing immediate distress as applied to paramedic practice in end-of-life and palliative care.
Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
Sam Waddy
0.50 Hours
This session will describe the definition, causes, diagnosis, management and prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia.
Trauma Resuscitation: The Secondary Survey
TiJesunimi Abiola and Nick Bolton
0.50 Hours
This session covers the secondary survey of a patient with multiple injuries.
Statistics: Hypothesis Testing
Sue Hill
0.50 Hours
This session describes the process of setting-up and interpreting a statistical test of a clinical hypothesis.
Statistics: Choice of Test
Ian Kestin
0.50 Hours
This session provides the opportunity to learn how to choose an appropriate statistical test for the common types of research projects. It also enables you to recognize if an appropriate test has been used in a journal article.
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) in Children
Peter Young
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of the assessment and management of children with urinary tract infection (UTI).
Tics and Twitches
Mary Robertson
0.50 Hours
This session will help to recognise tics and related behaviours in children.
Techniques and Equipment
Li Tee Tan
0.75 Hours
This session describes the equipment and techniques available for image-guided brachytherapy for cervix cancer.
Tissue Banking for Burn Services
Ingrid Kieran and Nadeem Khwaja
0.50 Hours
This session will describe the types of tissue that are used in burn care and summarise the legislation surrounding the storage and use of tissue products.
Tourniquet use including Indications, Effects and Complications
Tim Sparks
0.50 Hours
This session outlines the advantages, contraindications and potential complications for the use of tourniquets.
Wounds and Soft Tissue Injuries: Gunshot and Blast Injuries
Aaron McLean and Henry Nnajiuba
0.50 Hours
This session outlines the basic physics of wound ballistics and the injury patterns expected with different types of firearms and ammunition. This session also provides an overview of injury patterns from bomb blast.
The CVS and Sites for Drug Effects
Tom Simpson
0.50 Hours
This session describes the basic anatomy of the cardiovascular system and the action sites of agents frequently encountered in day-to-day anaesthetic practice.
Tracheal Tubes
Prasanna Tilakaranta and Simon Stacey
0.50 Hours
Tracheal tubes are widely used in anaesthesia to provide gas transfer between a breathing system and a patient’s trachea. This module will help you to understand the design and use of standard tracheal tubes. You will also be introduced to variants of the tracheal tube which have been modified for use in different clinical situa....
Standardizing Collection of Social Determinants Data
Andrew Hamilton, RN, BSN, MS and Michelle Proser, PhD, MPP
1.00 Hours
Providers serving complex, underserved populations need tools and strategies to identify the social determinant of health drivers of poor outcomes and higher costs in order to provide services that ultimately improve health outcomes and health behaviors. This is especially important in today’s value-based pay environment, where....
Transforming IT: The Journey to Clinical Innovation
Tom Stafford, PMP
1.00 Hours
Five years ago, the Halifax Health IT department was in shambles. Morale was dismal and the attrition rate had hit 30%. Not surprisingly, staff confidence in the department had bottomed out. Today, Halifax is recognized as the #5 Best Place to Work in IT in midsized organizations by Computerworld, and morale and trust in the IT....
User-Centered Design of a Mobile ePrescription Service
Claudio Saccavini and Enrico Dal Pozzo
1.00 Hours
User-centered design, while already utilized in several technologically-focused industries, is a relatively new topic to the healthcare sector. We present the development steps of a mobile service that allow citizens of Veneto Region, Italy, to manage their drug prescription, dispensing and remote renewal request. A set of metho....
Social Inclusion and Support
Deb Shearman
0.50 Hours
Overview; Principles of social inclusion; Research on the benefits; Barriers; Supporting social inclusion
Cultural Diversity and Safety
Deb Shearman
0.50 Hours
Overview; Peoples rights; Respecting culture and diversity; Cultural competence; Communication; Supporting individual wants and preferences