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.
Preoxygenation & e - Anesthesiology
Steven Cruickshank
0.50 Hours
This session investigates the principle of preoxygenation with tidal ventilation and how this leads naturally to the mathematical constant e and exponential processes.
Definitions and Simple Circuits - Anesthesiology
Patrick Magee
0.50 Hours
This session defines the basics of current, voltage and resistance, and describes some very basic electrical circuits.
Amplifiers and Interference - Anesthesiology
Patrick Magee
0.50 Hours
This session examines the properties and functions of operational amplifiers as single components and as components in circuits. It also deals with the concept of analogue to digital conversion of signals.
Anaesthesia for the Patient with a Renal Transplant
Ian Hunter and Judith Wright
This session will examine the conduct of anaesthesia in the patient with a pre-existing renal transplant.
Porphyria - Anesthesiology
Julian Dimech and Gareth Kessell
0.50 Hours
The aim of this session is to provide an overview of the clinical importance of porphyria with specific reference to its anaesthetic management.
Airway Assessment I - Anesthesiology
Jeff Tong
0.50 Hours
This session provides guidance on preparing an airway management plan based on a patient’s medical history and physical examination. It leads you through an airway assessment, highlighting those features that allow you to predict potential airway management difficulties as well as offering practical self assessment exercises to....
Pre-Medicant Drugs - Anesthesiology
Joanna Budd
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the types of pre-medicant drugs and the advantages and disadvantages of the different types, including how and why they should be prescribed.
Acute Osteomyelitis - Radiology
Himanshu Patel and Stephen Davies
1.00 Hours
This session covers the role of radiology in the diagnosis and management of acute osteomyelitis.
Anterior Knee Pain - Radiology
Catherine McCarthy
0.75 Hours
This session illustrates the imaging features of important causes of anterior knee pain with appropriate imaging techniques.
Common Uroradiological Syndromes: Other Syndromes
Camilla Whitten, Emma Wood, Uday Patel
0.50 Hours
This session is the second of two looking at common uroradiological conditions. It focuses on non-autosomal dominant conditions that have both renal and extrarenal manifestations: autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD), medullary sponge kidney (MSK), Wilms' tumour and nephroblastomatosis-related syndromes.
Abnormalities of the Bladder and Urethra
Katharine Halliday
0.50 Hours
In this session you will learn about congenital abnormalities of the bladder and urethra. You will also learn about some normal anatomical structures in the urethra which can be confused with abnormalities.
Arterial Ischaemic Stroke in Infancy and Childhood
Kling Chong
0.50 Hours
This session focuses on the application and role of neuroimaging in the diagnosis and management of paediatric arterial ischaemic stroke.
Paediatric Bone: Lower Body
Isky Gordon
0.50 Hours
This session covers paediatric bone scintigraphy of the lower skeleton including both normals and pathology.
Cardiac: Basic Principles
Gnanasegaran Gopinath
0.75 Hours
This session provides an understanding of basic embryology, anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of the heart.
Risk Factors for Pulmonary Embolism
David Ward
0.25 Hours
Explanation of the origins and utilisation of the modified Wells score for pulmonary embolism in practice.
Definition and Description of Bronchiectasis
Gaurav Agarwal
0.25 Hours
This session describes bronchiectasis and its causes.
Palliative Care Social Work
Jason Davidson
0.50 Hours
This session describes the role of palliative care social workers. It highlights the diversity of the role within a multidisciplinary context and describes how palliative care social workers provide a link between health and social care. This session was reviewed by Tes Smith and Richard Kitchen and last updated in February 2018....