Communication Skills
Jude Chukwuma
0.5 Hours
This session covers the basic principles of good communication and examines some of the common communication errors that may arise during a doctor´s interaction with both patients and colleagues.
Safer Medicine Use Through Concordance
Wendy Clyne and Patricia Black and Alison Blenkinsopp
0.5 Hours
As many as half of all medicines prescribed are never taken by patients. This session will provide an understanding of the reasons for this and of how, in your prescribing consultations, you can achieve concordance.
Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Part 3)
Nick Cooley and Greg Scutt and Paul Wade
0.5 Hours
The aim of this session is to promote rational use of antibiotics in optimising treatment of patients with infections and reducing emergence of antibiotic resistance. The risks of developing Clostridium difficile will be explained.
BNF Usage and Other Prescribing Information Sources
Sarah Morse
0.5 Hours
This session describes the British National Formulary (BNF) as a primary source of medicines information, highlighting key sections in the BNF and their application, and the formats of drug monographs. It also describes the limitations of the BNF as a source of medicines information and describes other sources of information ava....
Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Part 2)
Nick Cooley and Greg Scutt and Paul Wade
0.5 Hours
The aim of this session is to promote rational use of antibiotics in optimising treatment of patients with infections and reducing emergence of antibiotic resistance. Risks associated with antimicrobial use in patients who may have penicillin allergy will be explained.
Prevention Strategies
Wendi Murphy
0.5 Hours
Since some high-profile cases, agencies that deal with young people have an increased responsibility to work with each other to prevent substance misuse. This session outlines some of those responsibilities and suggests ways to identify young people at risk of substance misuse and put in place prevention strategies.
Adolescent Presenting with Intoxication
Katherine Teasdale
0.5 Hours
This session follows the case of a teenager presenting to hospital intoxicated. It develops with allegations of sexual assault. Concerns regarding risk of sexual exploitation emerge. Identification and management of the safeguarding issues are explored.
Physical Health Care for People With Severe Mental Illness
Jay Bowden
0.5 Hours
Patients with severe mental illness (SMI) have significantly worse health outcomes than in the general population, with life expectancy reduced by up to 20 years in this group. Cardiovascular and metabolic causes have been identified as being the key contributors to this excess mortality and morbidity. This session will explore....
Paediatric - wetting
June Rogers
0.5 Hours
This session will help practitioners become aware of bladder problems in children and young people, and to understand the implications continence problems can have on both the child and family as well as the wider community.
Safeguarding Children - Introduction to Special Educational Needs
Gabriel Whitlingum
0.5 Hours
This session gives an overview of the different types of special educational needs and barriers to learning.
Safeguarding Children - Moving Up
Jane Wright
0.5 Hours
This session is aimed at a universal audience and will explore the transition from primary school to secondary school. It will discuss the factors that may impact on this transition and the role of services to support children with particular physical, developmental, emotional or social needs.
Paediatric - Headaches
Ishaq Abu-Arafeh
0.5 Hours
Headache is an important and common health problem for children that may lead to school absence and educational underachievement. This session will introduce the common causes of headache, their presentation and the treatment options. This session will also help in better understanding of the impact of headache on child's social....
Communication and Co-ordination of Care for the Complex Obstetric Patient
Charlotte Frise
0.5 Hours
An obstetric patient with acute or chronic medical complications often requires specialist input from a variety of specialties. This session describes the input from a range of specialties into some examples of acutely ill obstetric patients.
Causes of Anaemia Associated with Breathlessness
Ranjit Dasgupta
0.25 Hours
This session will look at the classification of anaemia based on red cell indices and the associated factors leading to breathlessness in an anaemic patient.
Recognising Your Own Limitations in Symptom Management in Palliative Care
Sarah Wilcox
0.5 Hours
This session discusses how being aware of your own skills and limitations can improve symptom management and care for patients at the end of life. This session was reviewed by Sarah Wilcox and Christina Faull and last updated in January 2017.
Recognising and Managing Malignant Spinal Cord Compression in Palliative Care
Astrid Adams
0.5 Hours
Some end of life care situations are considered emergencies which require urgent intervention. One of these is spinal cord compression. This session provides a framework for recognising and managing spinal cord compression, when immediate treatment may restore function that would otherwise be lost. This session was reviewed by A....
Cough: Investigation and Management and BTS Guidelines
Salman Haider and Elspeth Potton and Veronica White
0.5 Hours
This session focuses on the causes of acute and chronic cough and describes the investigation and management of cough.
Other Signs of Cocaine Use
David Wood
0.25 Hours
This session reviews the signs and symptoms associated with cocaine use.
Anatomy of the Lungs and Respiratory System (anaesthesia)
Isabeau Walker
0.5 Hours
This session covers the anatomy relevant to respiration, correct tracheal tube placement, anatomical landmarks on a CXR and chest drain insertion.
Airway Maintenance: Tracheal Tube 1
Tim Cook, Christopher Seller and Tom Simpson
0.5 Hours
This session covers basic equipment, appropriate preparation for laryngoscopy and a step-by-step guide to a sound technique for laryngoscopy. The session also covers grading the view of the larynx on laryngoscopy.
Principles of IPPV (anaesthesia)
John Isaac
0.5 Hours
This session covers the principles of IPPV under anaesthesia.
CEACCP: Myasthenia gravis
Murali Thavasothy DCH, MRCP, FRCA and Nicholas Hirsch FRCA
0.5 Hours
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune condition in which IgG autoantibodies interact with the postsynaptic acetylcholine receptors (AChR) at the nicotinic neuromuscular junction (NMJ).
CEACCP: Ventricular assist devices
Paul Harris MBChB FRCA FFICM EDICM Lakshminarasimhan Kuppurao MD DA DNB FRCA
0.5 Hours
Heart failure occurs in 1% of the UK adult population yet represents 5% of all hospital admissions, according to the 2008/09 National Heart Failure audit. The 3 month readmission rate is as high as 30% and 30% of patients admitted will die within 1 yr of discharge. Medical therapies, such as angiotensin-converting enzyme inhi....
Patient-Controlled Analgesia
Seema Quasim
0.5 Hours
Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) is one of the most common techniques used in the control of acute pain, especially in the postoperative setting. This session concentrates on intravenous PCA.
Approaching ACP When Capacity is Uncertain, Fluctuating, or Likely to Deteriorate
Premila Fade
0.5 Hours
This session focuses on managing Advance Care Planning in situations where the patient has a disorder or impairment of the mind or brain which is fluctuating or deteriorating and is likely to affect capacity. This session was reviewed by Premila Fade and Christina Faull, and last updated in September 2016.