Paediatric - Introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorder
Daphne Keen
This session focuses on the causes and presentations of autism spectrum disorders and will help you to identify children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Paediatric - Musculoskeletal Problems
Amy Rowan
0.50 Hours
In this session we describe how to approach the clinical assessment of a child who is limping, or has limb pains. We outline important causes of limp and limb pain, including growing pains and inflammatory conditions, and red flags that highlight when you should be concerned. We describe normal variants of lower limb development....
Causes of Nausea and Vomiting in Palliative Care
Saskie Dorman
This session describes the physiological processes underlying nausea and vomiting and offers a framework for working out the causes of nausea and vomiting, as a basis for assessment and management of these problems. The session focuses on patients with advanced disease but is not a comprehensive view of the causes of nausea and....
Recognising and Managing Fatigue in Palliative Care
Margaret Saunders
This session provides a framework for the integrated assessment and management of fatigue in end of life care patients. This session was reviewed by Margaret Saunders and Christina Faull and last updated in April 2015.
Depth of Anaesthesia: Incidence and Management of Awareness
Oonagh Duff and Yogen Amin
0.50 Hours
This session will examine the incidence of awareness under general anaesthesia and identify which patients are most likely to experience it. It will describe measures to reduce the incidence of awareness, and how to manage an episode when it does occur.
Overview of Intravenous Fluids - Anesthesiology
Peter Ford
0.50 Hours
This session describes the physiology of body fluids and describes the composition and indications of some common intravenous fluids, together with their potential problems.
Antibiotic Policies - Anesthesiology
Andrew Ferguson
0.50 Hours
This session will review the incidence, mechanisms and implications of antimicrobial resistance in hospital practice. Using this as the background, we will discuss the role played by appropriate antimicrobial prescribing and administration in reducing the spread of resistance. We will also look at the implications of Clostridium....
Pharmacological and Non-pharmacological Management of Asthma
Viv Marsh
0.50 Hours
This session will explore the options associated with the pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of asthma. As a long-term medical condition, ongoing management is the key to asthma control and patient safety.
Recognising and Managing Asthma Attacks
Viv Marsh
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of asthma attacks including the initial assessment and management as well as recommendations for follow-up by an asthma-trained healthcare professional.
Recognising and Managing Asthma Attacks in Children
Viv Marsh
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of asthma attacks in children including their initial assessment and management as well as recommendations for follow-up by an asthma trained Health Care Professional (HCP).
Breast Cancer Sentinel Node
Svetislav Gacinovic, Jimmy Bomanji and Wendy Waddington
0.50 Hours
This session discusses commonly used radio-pharmaceuticals to detect the sentinel node in radionuclide imaging for breast cancer disease.
Anti-Scatter Grids in Radiography
Chris Taylor and Anna Burch
0.25 Hours
This session covers the use of grids to reduce the effect of scatter on a radiograph.
Cardiac MRI
Stephen Nicholas
0.50 Hours
This session describes the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques used for imaging the heart.
Acute Pain: History, Examination and Simple Uni-dimensional Tools
Lew-Chin Chee
0.50 Hours
This session is an introduction to the assessment of acute pain. It will cover history taking and physical examination, concentrating on the measurement of pain, particularly the use of simple unidimensional tools.
Peripheral Nerve Blocks of the Forearm
Matt Oldman and Rich Reed
0.50 Hours
This session describes nerve blocks of the forearm, including indications, contraindications, complications and anatomy.
Acute Renal Failure and the Effects of Anaesthesia on Renal Function
Phil Laws and Judith Wright
The session will familiarize you with the diagnosis, classification and aetiology of ARF. Modifications to general and regional anaesthesia are discussed along with the effects anaesthesia has on renal function.
Anaesthesia for the Patient with Hepatic Failure
James Ryan
0.50 Hours
Anaesthesia for patients with hepatic impairment can present many challenges. This session will explore the effects of hepatic impairment on the various organ systems of the body, and the implications this has for the pre-, peri- and postoperative anaesthetic management.
Epilepsy and Anaesthesia
Jason Easby and Dave Booth
0.50 Hours
This session will cover the definition and aetiology of epilepsy and the anaesthetic implications of a patient with epilepsy.
Day-case Surgery And Anaesthesia 2: Patient Selection and Discharge Criteria
Andrew Burtenshaw and K L Kong
0.50 Hours
This session aims to teach a framework with which to assess the suitability of individual patients for day case surgery (DCS) based on the relevant surgical, medical and social factors. It also emphasizes the importance of, and requirements for, a safe discharge.
Day Case Surgery and Anaesthesia 3
Ian Smith and R Satish Rajamanickam
0.50 Hours
Considerations for providing day case anaesthesia, commonly used drugs and techniques, suitable regional techniques and their modifications.
Common Uroradiological Syndromes: Autosomal Dominant Syndromes
Camilla Whitten, Emma Wood and Uday Patel
0.50 Hours
This session looks at three syndromes and conditions commonly encountered in urology that have both renal and extrarenal manifestations: von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease, tuberous sclerosis (TS) and autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD).
Acute Abdominal Pain
Rosemary Arthur
1.00 Hours
This session provides an overview of the role of imaging in a child who presents with acute abdominal pain, with particular reference to the older child.
Paediatric Intussusception
Alan Sprigg
0.50 Hours
In this session you will discover how to diagnose intussusception by imaging, how to liaise with the surgical team and the principles of therapeutic reduction.
Assessment of an Enlarged Liver
Alex Barnacle
0.50 Hours
This session details the process of assessing an enlarged liver in a child and outlines a structured approach to evaluating the main causes of hepatomegaly. An outline of further imaging investigations is also discussed.
Cranial Ultrasound: Technique and Normal Appearances
Helen Woodley
0.75 Hours
This session is about recognising normal cranial anatomy as seen by ultrasound, and understanding the technique for performing cranial ultrasound on neonates.