Overview of Routine Asthma Monitoring in Children
Viv Marsh
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of the purpose of routine monitoring of asthma in children, highlighting its importance and benefits to patients and the NHS. The structured asthma review will be explored with a particular focus on the assessment of control and common reasons for poor asthma control.
Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Management of Asthma in Children
Viv Marsh
0.50 Hours
This session provides an introduction to the pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutic options for the management of asthma in children. As a long-term medical condition ongoing management is the key to control and patient safety.
Anatomy and Physiology of the Balance Organs
Elfh
This session describes the anatomy of the balance organs in the inner ear (the vestibular system). Also covered is the mechanism whereby the otolithic organs and semicircular canals provide neural input on movement and the sense of balance.
Painful Osteoporosis Vertebroplasty
David Wilson
0.50 Hours
This session covers the indications for percutaneous vertebroplasty, the basic methods, the risks and precautions that should be taken and the chances of success.
Chronic Wrist Pain Hx Trauma
Waqar Bhatti and Richard Whitehouse
0.50 Hours
This session describes how to interpret the imaging findings in patients with chronic wrist pain and advise upon further investigation.
Common Clinical Problems: Acute Intestinal Haemorrhage
Chris Hay, Nathan Manghat and Simon Jackson
0.50 Hours
This session covers the imaging modalities available in the investigation of acute gastro-intestinal (GI) haemorrhage and their indications.
Common Clinical Problems: Jaundice
Dafydd Richards
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of jaundice from the radiologist’s perspective. It includes a discussion of the basic science of bilirubin, the classification of jaundice's multiple causes, the spectrum of imaging investigations available and an algorithm for investigation.
Other Pancreatic Neoplasms
David Scullion
0.50 Hours
This session discusses the less common pancreatic tumours, both benign and malignant.
Breast Pain and Inflammation
Sue Barter
0.50 Hours
This session has been developed to help you understand the imaging and management of conditions which present with breast pain and inflammation.
Anatomy of the Adrenal Gland
Dr Sheila Rankin
0.50 Hours
This session will cover the normal anatomy and physiology of the adrenal gland and its appearance on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) and ultrasound.
Benign Renal Tumours
Peter Guest
This session on tumours of the kidney deals specifically with benign tumours of the kidney that need differentiating from malignant lesions.
Renal Cyst Spectrum
Uday Patel
This session and its companion session, Renal Cystic Syndromes (300-0417), explore the various types of single and multiple renal cystic diseases encountered on radiological imaging. This session will focus on simple and complex renal cysts and calyceal diverticula and the second will expand on the various renal cystic syndromes....
Assessing Mental Capacity in Older People
Chantal Simon and Emma Vardy
0.50 Hours
Mental capacity is the ability to take actions affecting daily life. This session provides an overview of the legal and practical implications of assessing mental capacity in primary care.
Acquired Brain Injury
Eunan McCrudden and Catherine Flanagan
This session will outline the causes and effects of acquired brain injury (ABI) in childhood. It will explore the relevance of stages of brain development, anatomy and function when assessing children post-ABI. This will be considered in the context of a child and family’s adjustment to life following the injury. It will also co....
Diabetes Mellitus
Clarisa Choh and Hugh Simpson
This session identifies the metabolic consequences of diabetes mellitus which impact on surgical practice, and how to manage patients with diabetes mellitus peri-operatively.
Quantifying Strabismus
Nadia Northway
0.50 Hours
This session explains how to estimate the size of a manifest strabismus using corneal reflections, measure manifest and latent strabismus using prism and cover test, and identify a weak muscle.
Developing Person Centred Care Skills
Alison Lea
0.75 Hours
This session reviews the skills and knowledge required to deliver effective Person Centred Care.
Safe Use of Diathermy and Laser
Kenechukwu Igboebisi
0.25 Hours
The principles of diathermy and laser energy sources. The various types of diathermy and laser are briefly outlined, together with measures to prevent complications from their use.
Ethics - Consent
Stephen Ellis
0.50 Hours
This session looks at aspects of consent in medicine. It starts by looking at consent in research before focussing on consent to treatment. It examines what happens before the age of consent and what can be done when consent is refused. Consent in the case of people with learning difficulties is then explored and the session fin....
Ethics and Law - Professional and Legal Focus
Stephen Ellis
0.50 Hours
Clinicians have both legal and professional obligations to their patients. This session looks first at the duty of care clinicians owe their patients as set out by various professional bodies. It then focuses on the legal requirements that the law imposes upon a clinician and what a patient must show if they wish to bring legal....
Radionuclide Imaging Overview
Wil Evans
0.50 Hours
This session gives an overview of radionuclide imaging, setting it in the context of the broader discipline of nuclear medicine. It gives an outline of how a gamma camera is used to image the distribution of a radiopharmaceutical within the body.
Communication: Giving Results to Patients - Radiology
The London Deanery, Stephen Ellis
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the special communication skills required when breaking bad news.
Consent - Radiology
The London Deanery, Stephen Ellis
0.50 Hours
Part of ensuring patient safety is making certain that patients understand their proposed care and are happy for it to take place. Patients should be provided with comprehensive information, which allows them to make an informed decision on their healthcare. Agreement on the procedure or treatment to be undertaken is called ‘con....
Ethics - Life and Death Dilemmas - Radiology
The London Deanery, Stephen Ellis
0.25 Hours
This session looks at some ethical problems that may be encountered in everyday clinical practice: allocation of resources, sustaining life, embryo selection, living wills, privacy and health records. An examination of some of the ethical issues at the start and end of life can be found in Session Legal and Ethical Behaviour/Eth....
Alveolar Gas Equation - Anesthesiology
Steven Cruickshank
0.50 Hours
This session builds on the analysis of the relationship between alveolar ventilation and the resulting steady-state arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide to derive the alveolar gas equation, sometimes called the alveolar air equation.