COVID-19 Vaccines: Communication and Behaviour Change
Hospital for Sick Children ( SickKids) & GCNM
COVID-19 Vaccines: Communication and Behaviour Change features interactive activities on how to effectively communicate accurate and evidence-based information to address vaccine hesitancy with families, colleagues and communities. Important concepts on vaccines and how they work, efficacy and safety, vaccine schedule and post-a....
Safe Prescribing in Renal Impairment
Mee Onn Chai
This session will provide an overview of the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes which occur in patients with renal impairment. It will also highlight how changes in drug dosing regimes are necessary to prevent adverse events. Finally, the session will also describe the classification of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and....
Actinic Keratosis and Bowen’s Disease
Phil Preston
0.5 Hours
This session will highlight the clinical presentation and management options of actinic keratosis and Bowen's disease.
Safe Use of Insulin
Susan Cable
Insulin prescription and administration errors are a recurring problem within healthcare, yet are easily preventable. This session highlights the most common errors, and shows how to avoid them.
Preparations for Covid Vaccine Deployment
Prof. Andy Barraclough
This includes recognition of the challenges of the sheer scale of the vaccine volumes required, and why ‘piggy-backing’ onto to existing EPI programs is not a viable option. The essential need for thorough PSM planning and preparation for Covid Vaccine roll out including the need for Regulatory Authority preparedness and involv....
Selecting and Quantifying Covid Related Commodities
Prof. Andy Barraclough
Guidance on product identification includes how to make use of The United Nations Development Program’s Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office (UNDP/IAPSO) Manual on Emergency relief Items, and the WHO/UN documentation available for Covid Commodities. Forecasting and quantification of Covid health related commodities describe....
Corticosteroids, Thyroxine and Drugs Used in Thyroid Disorders
Michael Edward O'Connor
This session describes corticosteroids and their role in health, as well as the use of extrinsic corticosteroids in disease states, the complications associated with this use relevant to the anaesthetist, thyroid hormone production, and treatment of thyroid disorders.
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD): Webinar
Prof Karen Dwyer
This webinar presented by Prof. Karen Dwyer clearly explains the interrelationship between Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). AKI can lead to new CKD or progression of existing CKD, leading to end stage disease and need for dialysis for some individuals. The risk factors for both conditions are clearly....
Human Trafficking: Providing Meaningful Intervention
Diana Kovacic, DNP, RN; and Debra Holbrook, MSN, RN, SANE A, FNE A/P, DF-AFN, FAAN
2 Hours
Victims of human trafficking (HT) often encounter health care providers (HCPs) while being trafficked, yet many HCPs lack adequate training regarding the issue. This module will provide an overview of HT, including common forms. Indicators of HT and vulnerabilities associated with HT will be reviewed. Health consequences victims....
GLAUCOMA SERIES 1
Oco Mukuye Steven and Dr Osama Giasin,
The principal ocular structures concerned with glaucoma are ciliary body, angle of anterior chamber and the aqueous outflow system.
Neonatal Jaundice, Kenya & Tanzania
Dr Syed Furrukh Jamil ,MRCPCH, FRCPCH,FHEA
The American Academy of Pediatrics This presentation is a project funded by UNICEF to the American Academy of Pediatrics to provide techincal expertise in the form of newborn care telementoring.
Pressure ulcer prevention in frail older people
Marcee Barry and Linda Nugent
1 Hours
This learning module provides an overview of the nursing considerations for paediatric anaesthesia. It is aimed at newly qualified operating department practitioners and anaesthetic nurses, and those with limited experience in the care of paediatric patients. It explores the ways in which paediatric anatomy and physiology differ....
Caring for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: part 1
Donna Jones
1 Hours
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is common in the UK and causes a significant burden to patients and the NHS. Healthcare provision for COPD is largely focused on biomedical treatment, yet research suggests the complexity of factors contributing to this disease requires a deeper understanding of the patient experience....
Improving healthcare outcomes through the delivery of patient-centred care
Heather Gluyas
1 Hours
Patient-centred care is a model of care that respects the patient's experience, values, needs and preferences in the planning, co-ordination and delivery of care. A central component of this model is a therapeutic relationship between the patient and the team of healthcare professionals. The implementation of a patient-centred c....
Tools and System Reporting
The Empower Group https://www.empowerschoolofhealth.org/
By the end of this course, you will have learnt about the following subjects: Tools and System Reporting.
Innovation in Healthcare The role of Creativity, Design, and Innovation in Nursing
Loressa Cole, DNP, MBA, RN
Healthcare is in an incredible time of disruption and nurses are at the epicenter of the pandemic. Nurses are working differently, and our profession’s leadership in redesigning care across our country has never been more apparent. Attend this webinar to learn more about the trends and how you can work and lead through these tum....
Identifying Unhealthy Weight and Risk Factors for Weight Gain
Jamie Blackshaw
This session looks at how to measure excess weight in children and adults, and discusses the causes of obesity including those that may present outside of lifestyle-related obesity.
Diagnosing Viral Hepatitis
Gary Brook
This session explains how hepatitis A-E should be diagnosed. It describes sampling and diagnostic tests. The timescale between exposure and tests for hepatitis becoming positive is discussed, as is the interpretation of test results after treatment.
Diagnosing Donovanosis
Nigel O'Farrell
This session covers the various methods of diagnosing donovanosis in the laboratory. It describes the samples that are required, the nature of the tests and their potential advantages and disadvantages.
Introduction to Obesity
Jamie Blackshaw
This session aims to provide you with an overview of overweight and obesity in children and adults in the UK. Obesity is a serious and wide spread public health issue, which has a disproportionate impact on the most deprived families. This session will touch upon the physical, psychological and social issues that can manifest du....
Launch of the LabCoP Diagnostic Network Optimisation Sub-CoP
Dr Marguerite Massinga Loembe and Juhi Gautam
LabCoP’s first Diagnostic Network Optimisation Sub-Community of Practice (DNO Sub-CoP) ECHO session was held in September 2022. The DNO Sub-CoP is a collaboration between ASLM and FIND, that aims to improve the uptake and quality of DNO processes in LabCoP-participating countries. This joint session was moderated by Dr Marguerit....
Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests
Deborah Mortiboy, Mark Hopkins and Dr Anu Chawla
This session describes the common molecular methods used to diagnose sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK, focusing on Chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis) and Neisseria gonorrhoea (N. gonorrhoeae) as examples, to enable an understanding of the basic concepts and the caveats of different methodologies in clinical p....
Innovating for Tuberculosis Diagnostics: MTB/XDR Assays and Considerations for Implementation
Dr Collins Otieno, Ms Anura David and Dr Pedro Da Silva
On 15 July 2021 this Extended ECHO session was convened to discuss the WHO`s End TB Strategy that requires universal drug susceptibility testing and treatment of all tuberculosis case. Fewer than desired drug-resistant tuberculosis cases receive appropriate treatment due to either limited access to or sophisticated laboratory in....
Exploring Advancements in the Lipoarabinomannan (LAM) Diagnostic Development Pipeline
Lesley Scott, Dr Jeremy Nel, Anura David and Morten Ruhwald
On 4 May, ASLM’s LabCoP, in collaboration with EDCTP and TB-CAPT, convened an Extended ECHO session that focused on exploring advancements in the lipoarabinomannan (LAM) diagnostic development pipeline, approaches for clinical adoption in field settings, and strategies for quality assessment. The information in this session help....
HIV VL Monitoring Among Patients on ART: Eight sub-Saharan African Countries, 2013–2018
Dr Shirley Lee Lecher
LabCoP’s August 2021 ECHO session focused on sharing progress in HIV viral load (VL) monitoring among patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) from eight sub-Saharan Africa countries between 2013 and 2018. Monitoring of VL suppression at individual and population level is necessary to ensure achievement of global epidemic contro....