Central and Widespread Pain
Udaya Chakka and John Hughes
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the most common chronic pain conditions.
Assessment and Referral for Intrauterine Contraception Fitting and Removal
Judy Felton
0.5 Hours
This session looks at intrauterine contraception (IUC). It will enable the assessment of the suitability of women to use the copper intrauterine device (Cu-IUD) or levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG-IUS), compare the modes of action, risks and benefits, discuss advice and information to be given to women, follow-up and remo....
Abdominal Viscera: Large Intestine
Riz Farouk
0.50 Hours
This session outlines the anatomy of the colon, its arterial and venous blood supply, lymphatic drainage and relationship to important adjacent structures: including the ureters, duodenum, liver and gallbladder, stomach, spleen and peritoneum.
Radiological Assessment of Women with Breast Implants
Penny Moyle and Sue Barter
0.5 Hours
This session will help you to understand the various types of breast implants and their complications. It also covers the methods and challenges of radiological assessment of women with implants.
Cellulitis
Mr Benjamin McWalter
0.5 Hours
This session aims to give information relating to Cellulitis in adults that may be encountered during paramedic practice, in either an Emergency, Urgent or Primary care setting.
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Rajesh Narendran
0.5 Hours
This session describes the types of CRPS, the criteria used for diagnosis, pathophysiology, principles of management and recent research on CRPS.
Developmental Embryology of Heart and Great Vessels
Susan Standring
0.5 Hours
The key events that occur in the development of the heart and the great vessels.
Burns: Classification and Management of Burns
Hannah Sellars and Karthik Srinivasan
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the initial care of a patient with major burns including the assessment, classification and management of burn wounds. Late complications and rehabilitation of patients with burn injuries are also reviewed.
Cardio Pulmonary Disease: Coronary Heart Disease and Acute MI
Luke J Rogers
0.5 Hours
This session will provide a brief introduction to coronary heart disease and acute myocardial infarction.
Radiation Use and Risks
Murali D Parthasarathy
0.5 Hours
This session reviews the role of radiological techniques in the management of surgical disease. The advantages of radiological interventional techniques over conventional surgery will be highlighted. Precautions that have to be adhered to in using radiological assessments/techniques will be highlighted.
Organ Trauma Vascular Extrinsic Trauma
Morgan P. McMonagle
0.5 Hours
This session describes the types of peripheral vascular injuries that may be encountered, the hard signs of vascular injury and the best approach for management.
Organ Trauma: Penetrating Abdominal Trauma
Mansoor A Khan
0.5 Hours
This session will provide an overview of the management of penetrating abdominal trauma.
CXR: Reticular Patterns (Differential)
Jonathan Benham
0.5 Hours
This session describes the common causes of linear or reticular patterns on chest radiographs (CXR).
Organ Trauma: Blunt Abdominal Trauma
Mansoor A Khan
0.5 Hours
This session will provide an overview of the management of blunt abdominal trauma.
Anterior Mediastinal Masses
John Reynolds
0.5 Hours
This session begins with a brief review of some key points of anatomy relating to the mediastinum on the chest radiograph (CXR). Following this is an overview of the radiological appearances (plain film and cross-sectional).
Percutaneous Biliary Intervention
Ian Zealley
0.75 Hours
This session explains percutaneous biliary drainage and other biliary interventional procedures.
Painless Scoliosis
Sylvia Connolly
0.5 Hours
This session explores the features and particularities of painless scoliosis.
Radiological Assessment of Aggressive Paediatric Bone Lesions
Sajid Butt
0.5 Hours
This session describes the imaging findings of aggressive bone lesions in the paediatric population. Common and important aggressive features will be reviewed along with the value of multimodality imaging in characterising these lesions.
Osteoporosis and Bone Densitometry
Clare Groves
0.5 Hours
This session describes the nature and causes of osteoporosis and how it is imaged, with special reference to dual x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) as a diagnostic and management tool.
Abdominal Radiographs: Uses, Limitations, Techniques and Normal Anatomy
David Scullion
0.75 Hours
This session examines the uses and limitations of plain abdominal radiography, as well as the principles of abdominal plain film interpretation.
Breast Anatomy, Physiology and Imaging
Ruchi Sinnatamby and Nisha Sharma
0.5 Hours
This session will help you to appreciate the clinical relevance of breast anatomy and effects on the breast of age and alteration in hormonal environment; the principles underlying the techniques of mammography, breast ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and their clinical applications; and the normal appearances of....
Crohn's Disease
Peter Rodgers
1 Hours
This session discusses Crohn’s disease with specific reference to small bowel involvement. It focuses on conventional imaging diagnosis and the many recent advances in this modality over recent years, through an understanding of the underlying pathological changes.
Breast Calcification
Nisha Sharma
0.5 Hours
This session describes the appearances of mammographic microcalcification, its differential diagnosis and its clinical and pathological significance.
Calcification: Nephrocalcinosis
Colin Evans and Uday Patel
0.25 Hours
This session describes the radiological features and varieties of nephrocalcinosis.
Ring Shadows
Louise Sweeney
0.5 Hours
This session is designed to illustrate the appearance on imaging of the various types of ring shadows and correlate the appearance with the clinical presentation.