Adult Drug Courts and Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Dependence
Industry Specialist
1.00 Hours
This course addresses the following aspects with regard to medication-assisted treatment for opioid dependence and adult drug courts: understanding opioid use and dependence; evidence-based best practices for opioid dependence; medication-assisted treatment and drug courts; effective medication treatments for opioid dependence;....
Competencies for Counseling the Multiracial Population
Dr. Kelley R. Kenney, Dr. Mark E. Kenney
2.00 Hours
The goal of this CE course is for the competencies discussed to serve as a resource and provide a framework for how counseling and other helping professionals can competently and effectively work with and advocate for members of the multiracial population, including interracial couples, multiracial families, multiracial individu....
Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency
Industry Specialist
7.00 Hours
This course illustrates how the the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project is the first major opportunity to use a behavioral economics lens to look at programs that serve poor and vulnerable people in the United States. Behavioral economics combines insights from psychology and economics. The BIAS p....
Acute Illness Impacts Function In Elderly
Alison Yarnall
0.25 Hours
This session examines how acute illness in the elderly may disguise other medical problems and considers the implications of this for presentation and examination. The causes and consequences of immobility in the elderly are also considered.
Causes of Postural Hypotension
Mira Doshi
0.25 Hours
This session describes the causes of postural hypotension.
Post-operative Confusion
Vittalrao Jadhav
0.25 Hours
This session discusses one of the most important conditions found on surgical wards, post-operative confusion or delirium. Areas covered include the principal causes and risk factors as well as how to diagnose it.
Definition of Stroke
Sameer Limaye
This session defines and describes stroke using current guidelines. It also makes the distinction between stroke, transient ischaemic attack (TIA) and brain attack.
Parkinsonism
Dr Brian Wood
0.25 Hours
This session revises the typical features and differential diagnoses of parkinsonism.
Dealing with the Unconscious Patient
Ramachandran Sivakumar
This session focuses on a practical approach to managing an unconscious patient.
Definitions of Chronic Kidney Disease
Colin Jones
0.25 Hours
This session outlines some key definitions in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic kidney disease.
Differentiating COPD and Asthma
John Hurst
0.25 Hours
COPD and asthma are both common conditions that affect the airways and can present in similar ways. It is important to differentiate between the two and understand how this can be done. This session is designed to address these questions.
Difficulties of Treating Interstitial Lung Disease
Melissa Heightman
0.25 Hours
This session looks at interstitial lung disease (ILD), with an emphasis on those types that can present acutely. It identifies treatments with some evidence of benefit.
Definition and Description of Bronchiectasis
Gaurav Agarwal
0.25 Hours
This session describes bronchiectasis and its causes.
Acute Presentations of Tuberculosis (TB)
Will Ricketts
0.50 Hours
This session discusses how tuberculosis might present acutely to the Emergency Department or on the Acute Medical Take (e.g. pulmonary, spinal, meningitis). It also examines the complications of anti-tuberculous chemotherapy that may present acutely (e.g. hepatotoxicity and skin reactions) and their management.
Primary Care Management
Cassy Henderson
This session introduces the Clinical Management domain of the RCGP curriculum. It uses a patient scenario to highlight how the domain applies to problems as they present in primary care. This session was reviewed by Khyati Bakhai and updated in November 2022.
Assessing Development Stage
Deborah Christie
0.50 Hours
This session will help you review both personal and accepted definitions of adolescence. It will discuss the physical, social, cognitive, emotional and behavioural changes that take place during this developmental stage. A four stage assessment tool will be described that can be used to determine where a young person is in relat....
Airway Maintenance: cLMA
Tim Cook, Christopher Seller and Tom Simpson
0.50 Hours
This session introduces the cLMA (classic laryngeal mask airway), covering its history and development through to usage, indications, contraindications and complications.
Reversal and Extubation
John Saddler
0.50 Hours
In this session you will learn about the circumstances required before muscle relaxants can be reversed and the criteria necessary before patients can be safely extubated.
Cardiovascular Problems Anesthesiology
Richard Hughes
0.50 Hours
This session explains the common causes of intraoperative haemodynamic disturbances and suggests a logical sequence for rapidly identifying problems, along with suggestions for their management.
Overview of Organ Support
Michelle Soskin
0.50 Hours
This session will be an introduction to critical care medicine for someone who has very little previous experience of the specialty. It provides a structured approach to the clinical management and introduces some commonly used terminology.
Post Cardiac Arrest Syndrome: A Review of Therapeutic Strategies
Dion Stub, MBBS; Stephen Bernard, MBBS, MD; Stephen J. Duffy, MBBS, PhD; David M. Kaye, MBBS, PhD
0.50 Hours
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a common initial presentation of cardiovascular disease, affecting up to 325 000 people in the United States each year.
CEACCP: One-lung anaesthesia
Jo Eastwood FRCA Ravi Mahajan DM FRCA
0.50 Hours
One-lung anaesthesia (OLA) may be indicated in lung, oesophageal, mediastinal and spinal surgery. This review examines preoperative considerations, physiology of onelung ventilation and anaesthetic management of OLA.
CEACCP: Optimal volaemic status and predicting fluid responsiveness
Lorna Eyre BSc (Hons) FRCA and Andrew Breen FRCA
0.50 Hours
Multiple studies have demonstrated the favourable outcome achieved by goal-directed fluid management during the intraoperative period. Maximizing stroke volume by optimal fluid loading during high-risk surgery decreases both the incidence of postoperative complications and length of stay in intensive care.
Prevention of Stress Ulceration
Aung Lwin and Daniele Bryden
0.50 Hours
Bleeding from stress ulcer disease remains a significant medical problem in critically ill patients and thus is an important topic for trainees to be aware of. This session will cover the rationale, treatment options and issues related to stress ulcer prophylaxis.