Understanding Pathophysiology
Angelica Dizon BSN, RN, MD
6.00 Hours
Few things in health care have as direct an impact on patient care as pathophysiology - it’s the “whys” of what happens during disease and what we must do to treat it. By having a solid understanding of pathophysiology, you can provide an accurate, speedy assessment and treatment for your patient. This video teaches you a straig....
Remote Patient Monitoring: A Mississippi Success Story
Michael P. Adcock, FACHE and Tearsanee C. Davis, DNP, APRN-BC
1.00 Hours
In August 2014, the UMMC Center for Telehealth launched The Mississippi Diabetes Telehealth Network to pilot an advanced healthcare model on patients with uncontrolled diabetes living in the Mississippi Delta. Based on the findings of the Mississippi Diabetes Telehealth Network, UMMC has ramped up this program to include monitor....
Essentials of Hypertension - Webinar
Erin Vaughan
Understanding the essentials of hypertension and the key treatments and goals
Engaging Children and Young People
Margaret Hunter-Smallbone - Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, Herts Partnership Found
0.50 Hours
This session presents a basic guide to engaging children and young people in a one to one interview. It describes how to prepare for the meeting and how to adapt the setting and your manner for different age and ethnic groups. It offers activities to help conversation flow. It gives examples of how to get the most out of your fi....
Prescribing in Pregnancy
Melissa Sayer
0.50 Hours
This session highlights the issues a GP must consider when prescribing to a pregnant woman. It outlines the general principles of safe prescribing.
Psychological Development
Russell Viner
0.50 Hours
This session will review the reciprocal impact of changes in psychological development in adolescence including cognitive, emotional and behavioural development. The session will also consider what impact these developmental changes have on self-management of long-term illness during adolescence.
Acute Wheeze in Children
Peter Young
0.50 Hours
This session considers the assessment and management of acute wheeze in children of different ages. This session was reviewed by Matthew Castleden and last updated on 27/03/13.
Allergies in Children
Malin Sullivan
This session uses case studies to describe the appropriate primary care management of allergies in children. It will outline the rise in allergy rates, the main allergic disorders and their appropriate treatment. This session was reviewed by Khyati Bakhai and last updated in October 2020.
ADHD
Mandy Rose
0.50 Hours
The session helps you to understand Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It covers the epidemiology, aetiology, core symptoms, associated conditions, differential diagnosis and management of the disorder. This session was reviewed by Sally Higginbottom and last updated in July 2014.
Premature Menopause
Nick Panay and Julie Ayres
0.50 Hours
This session will help learners to understand the definition and significance of a premature menopause and the key management issues involved in the healthcare of women experiencing it.
Assessing a Patient with an Electrolyte Imbalance
Stuart Smellie
0.50 Hours
This session explores the common and important causes of electrolyte imbalances commonly seen in primary care and presents a set of typical case studies of patients who have electrolyte disturbances. This session was reviewed by Emma Nash and last updated on 24/06/13.
Airway Maintenance: Tracheal Tube 2
Tim Cook, Christopher Seller and Tom Simpson
0.50 Hours
This session covers the recognition of correct and incorrect airway placement – for both the tracheal tube (TT) and the supraglottic airway device. The session describes the potential problems encountered, how to make the diagnosis and how to manage the incorrectly placed airway.
Airway Obstruction
Tim Cook, Christopher Seller and Tom Simpson
0.50 Hours
In this session you will learn about airway obstruction during anaesthesia in a spontaneously breathing patient; the causes and clinical signs.
PreOxygenation
Fred Roberts FRCA
0.50 Hours
This session outlines what preoxygenation is, why it is used and when to use it, and explains the two main techniques used to achieve it.
Rapid Sequence Induction
Aneeta Sinha and James Dinsmore
0.50 Hours
This session describes rapid sequence induction (RSI), the indications for RSI and how to perform RSI.
Airway maintenance and Oxygen Therapy
Sharon Holland
0.50 Hours
This session illustrates the importance of effective airway maintenance in the recovery room, why oxygen therapy is required and how it can be safely and effectively administered.
Respiratory Problems Anesthesiology
Richard Hughes
0.50 Hours
This session explains the ways in which a critical incident can result from a respiratory problem and suggests a logical sequence for rapidly identifying and correcting the cause.
Principles of Nutrition in the Critically Ill
James Wigfull and Lisa Brown
0.50 Hours
This session introduces the basic principles, and the importance, of nutrition and explains why nutrition in the critically ill differs from healthy subjects. It highlights the difficulties that arise with the delivery of nutrients and describes the commonly-used methods for calculating nutritional requirements.
Dexmedetomidine: its use in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia
VL Scott-Warren MBChB (Hons) FRCA and J Sebastian BSc MBBS MRCP FRCA
0.50 Hours
Dexmedetomidine is a relatively new drug to the UK having been launched in October 2011 with marketing authorization for sedation of adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients only. Despite this, its unique pharmacological profile has led to its unlicensed use in a number of areas of anaesthetic and critical care practice where e....
Being Open Theory
Jane Carthey and Christine Johnson
0.50 Hours
This session describes how to communicate effectively and empathetically with patients and carers who have been involved in a serious adverse event. This session was reviewed by Khyati Bakhai and last updated in December 2014.
Cataracts Presentation Referral and Post-op Care
Heidi Aichner Cataract and Primary Care Fellow, Moorfields Eye Hospital
0.50 Hours
This session provides core knowledge about managing patients who present with cataracts in primary care; their presentation, risk factors, management and postoperative care.
Clinical Approach To Brief Advice
Public Health England
0.50 Hours
This session aims to examine the relationship between the practitioner and the individual undergoing Brief Advice and provide some practical guidelines to use during brief advice.
Concepts of Puberty
Russel Viner
0.50 Hours
This session introduces key concepts relating to puberty such as: potential issues, biological changes, Tanner stages and timings. The onset of the reproductive function and the pubertal growth spurt are also discussed.
Confidentiality: Formal and Accidental Disclosures
Aidan Macfarlane
0.50 Hours
This session examines the circumstances under which you may have to break confidentiality either by disclosing something that has been to told to you verbally or that you have written in medical records. It also looks at circumstances where accidental disclosure may occur and what action may need to be taken when this happens.