REFRACTIVE ERROR
Kagumba Nicholas Musisi and Tanvi Shah
Emmetropia: a condition in which incident parallel light rays are focused on retinal photoreceptors Ammetropia: parallel light rays not focused on photoreptors of the retina under minimum accommodation
Airway and Ventilation
Dr. Juli Reynolds PhD,
Neo Consult The aim of this course is to be a practical guide for medical and nursing staff who are involved in looking after sick children. This presentation covers airway and ventilation in the PICU. Target Audience: PICU Nurses Junior Paediatric Residents
Blood Glucose Monitoring
Dr. Juli Reynolds PhD
Neo Consult This course has been developed for nurses working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The course will enable you to develop your performance in practice, theorise practice and develop the knowledge and skills required to be competent in the role of a neonatal intensive care nurse. Target Audience: 1) Neonata....
Basic Principles of PICU
Dr. Juli Reynolds PhD,
Neo Consult The aim of this course is to be a practical guide for medical and nursing staff who are involved in looking after sick children. This course covers the relevant differences between neonates and adults. Target Audience: PICU Nurses & Junior Paediatric Residents
Nutritional Management of the Preterm Infant
Dr. Juli Reynolds
This is an advanced course in nutritional management of the newborn and covers the following topics: 1. Parenteral Nutrition 2. Enteral Feeding 3. The use of human milk in NICU 4. The use of human milk fortifier in NICU 5. Successful Breast Feeding
Infection Control Handbook for NICU
Dr. Juli Reynolds
By the end of this course, you will have learnt about the Infection Control for Nicu.
Pediatric Healthcare - History and Examination
Dr. Juli Reynolds
This course addresses common and important clinical problems in children. This course covers the following areas. The first meeting and history taking when examining a child. Physical examination of a child. Special investigations and writing clinical notes.
Hypertension in Primary Health Care
Dr. Elijah Rutahaba MBChB MMED and Dr. Emmy Okelo, MBChB MMED PhD FACC
This training is designed for primary health care workers and managers and focuses on the use of a standardized protocol and other clinical management tools, such as patient cards, registers, and reporting templates. Interactive lectures, case studies, and activities drawn on national cardiovascular disease/hypertension guidelin....
Community Acquired Pneumonia
Mr Benjamin McWalter
0.5 Hours
This session aims to give information relating to Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) in adults that may be encountered during paramedic practice, in either an Emergency, Urgent or Primary care setting.
Inhalation Sedation Equipment
Kathy Wilson
This session describes the equipment required for the administration of inhalation sedation. Details of the safety features and equipment checks are also covered.
Changing Patterns of Oral Health and Disease
Paul Batchelor
This session covers the evolving pattern of oral health and diseases within the UK population. We will examine how these have changed over the years, the variation within society of oral disease and non-clinical measures of oral health.
Pharmacology of Intravenous Sedation Agents
John Lyne
This session will cover the pharmacology of the main intravenous drugs used in out-patient dental intravenous sedation.
Factors influencing the use of dental local anaesthesia
Andrew Carr and Kathy Wilson
This session will outline factors influencing the management of dental patients with local anaesthetic.
The Different Approaches in Assessing the Child Patient
Kathryn Harley, Sanjeev Sood and Gillian Richardson
This session describes the dental assessment and examination of children and adolescents. It will cover all aspects of the assessment process and appropriate age-related behaviour management techniques.
Principles of ATLS
Francine Mariko Ryba
This module will provide you with an overview of the basic principles of advanced trauma life support (ATLS). The systematic ABCDE approach in the management of the trauma patient, the primary and secondary survey and the Glasgow coma scale (GCS) score will be explained.
Holistic Assessment of the Patient
Marion Lynch and Martin Hobdell
This session looks at holism, i.e. the integration of physical, psychological and social components of health problems. It explores patients’ and dentists’ perceptions of holism and how these influence the presentation of problems, communication, diagnoses and the sharing of management planning.
Performing an Extra-oral and Facial Examination
Nicholas Goodger
This session describes the processes for performing extra-oral and facial examinations, and the reasons for carrying them out.
Developing Rapport
Mike Busby
This session will cover the importance of developing rapport with patients.
Respiratory physiology relevant to conscious sedation
John Lyne
This session will cover the basic mechanism of gas exchange. The importance of the oxygen dissociation curve in sedation practice will also be discussed.
Topical anaesthetics
Zoe Greenwood
This session looks at which topical anaesthetics are available, including techniques for their application, uses, disadvantages and alternatives.
Introduction to Dental Local Anaesthesia
Zoe Greenwood
This session provides an overview of dental local anaesthesia. Much of the information will be revision of basic principles from undergraduate training. The session describes the techniques available to achieve local anaesthesia for dental procedures, and then goes on to demonstrate how local anaesthetic agents are classified an....
Physiology of Pregnancy and Labour 2
Mary Mushambi and Paul Slatter
0.5 Hours
This session will explore the changes in gastrointestinal, central nervous system, endocrine, renal and musculoskeletal physiology providing the necessary understanding for a doctor starting in obstetric anaesthesia.
Body Temperature and its Regulation
Robin Correa
0.5 Hours
This session examines the control of body temperature. It covers physiological aspects of temperature homeostasis including various mechanisms and body systems that are involved in regulation.
Physiology of Obesity and Effects on Organ Systems
Rajdeep Sandhu and Mark Bellamy
0.5 Hours
This session will enable you to understand the pathogenesis of obesity and its effects on various organ systems.
Antihypertensive and Hypotensive drugs
Sue Hill and Sarah Mercer
0.5 Hours
This session describes the management of patients with pre-existing hypertension and then examines ways of deliberately reducing blood pressure intraoperatively.