Imaging Loin Pain and Renal Colic
Philip Haslam
This session examines the renal causes of loin pain and the imaging modalities used.
Imaging of Renal Transplant Dysfunction: Early Complications
Grant Baxter
0.50 Hours
The historical and clinical background to renal transplantation and the normal grey scale and colour Doppler ultrasound appearances of the transplant kidney was introduced in session Module 4c/Genito-Urinary and Adrenal/Imaging the Transplant Kidney Introduction (300-0427). This session describes the early complications that are....
Level 3 - Introduction: Attaining and Maintaining Safeguarding Competences
Peter Sidebotham
0.50 Hours
This introduction sets the scene for six further Level 3 Safeguarding Children and Young People sessions. Each session examines a common safeguarding scenario. You will explore what safeguarding children means for you as a member of clinical staff working with children, young people and/or their parents/carers and how you work w....
Hard to Reach and Seldom-heard Families
Karen Whittaker
0.50 Hours
This session will explore what is commonly understood by the term ‘hard to reach’ and what this understanding leads practitioners to conclude.
Looked After Children Part 1: Challenges and Principles
Douglas Simkiss
0.50 Hours
In this and Session Safeguarding/Looked After Children Part 2, we will explore the evidence for the statement that looked after children “have a higher level of health, mental health and health promotion needs than others of the same age” and look at how the Healthy Child Programme can meet these needs.
Looked After Children Part 2: Influencing Factors and Outcomes of Care Journeys
Douglas Simkiss
0.50 Hours
In this and session Safeguarding/Looked After Children Part 1, we will explore the evidence for the statement that looked after children “have a higher level of health, mental health and health promotion needs than others of the same age” and look at how the Healthy Child Programme can meet these needs.
Laser-Tissue Interactions
Sarah Pape
0.75 Hours
This session describes the ways in which laser light interacts with tissue, identifies the role of selected laser targets within tissues and explores the effect of laser parameters on laser absorption.
Intense Pulsed Light and LED Devices
Sarah Pape
0.75 Hours
This session describes the characteristics of intense pulsed light and light emitting diode devices and their current clinical applications, with a discussion of their hazards to human health.
Encouraging Feedback and Using it
Pamela Hampson and Marilyn Thirlway
0.25 Hours
This session focuses on how to encourage and use effective feedback. It demonstrates the skills of active listening which are used to ensure that you and the speaker fully understand each other. The strategies of appreciative questioning and the methods for checking understanding are covered. Once you have looked at how to recei....
How to Take a History Red Eye
Rosemary Robinson
0.50 Hours
This session is designed to help you take a focused history from a patient presenting with an acute red eye and to help form a differential diagnosis, even before you examine the eye.
Improving the Quality and Safety of Care through Health Informatics
Diane Bullman
This session will look at some of the ways the health service continuously monitors, improves and assures the quality and safety of patient care. It examines how informatics is an essential tool which supports these processes and how it can be used to improve care.
Liberating Learning - Classroom and Learner-based Strategy
Stephen Ellis
0.50 Hours
This session explores classroom and learner-based learning activities. It demonstrates many of these with videos of case scenarios and offers practical suggestions to liberate learning.
Interpretation of Ventilation Perfusion Studies: Normality
Bob Bury
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the concept of probability banding in assessing the likelihood of pulmonary embolus (PE) from a ventilation–perfusion (V/Q) scan.
Neuroendocrine Imaging with MIBG Somatostatin Receptor Scintigraphy (SRS)
Heshan Panditaratne and Andrew Scarsbrook
0.50 Hours
This session will describe the basics of neuroendocrine tumour cellular pathology as the basis for targeted radionuclide imaging. It will review the clinical indications for somatostatin receptor and metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scintigraphy, discuss technical performance parameters, illustrate physiological tracer distributio....
Malignant Melanoma 99m Tc: Sentinel Node
Richard Graham
0.50 Hours
This session will discuss how lymphoscintigraphy is used to stage malignant melanoma.
Isotope Cystography
Isky Gordon
0.50 Hours
This session covers the use of radioisotope tracers for cystography and detection of reflux.
Electromagnetic Radiation
Mike Mayo
0.25 Hours
This session introduces the fundamentals of electromagnetic radiation and is a prerequisite to the other e-learning sessions in Module 8a Physics.
Factors Affecting Dose in Radiography
Chris Taylor and Anna Burch
0.50 Hours
Both the radiation dose to the patient and the quality of the image are influenced by the equipment selected and the technique used to obtain an x-ray image. This session will deal with the effect on patient dose, while the next session, Factors Affecting Image Quality (300-0701), will deal with the effect on image quality.
Mechanism of General Anaesthetic Action
Shelley Barnes, Jeff Handel, Madeleine Storey
0.50 Hours
This session describes the ways in which general anaesthetic agents are hypothesized to exert their effects at the cellular and molecular level.
Left Ventricular Impairment - Anesthesiology
Dave Murray, Conor Gillan
Left ventricular dysfunction and the subsequent development of congestive heart failure is the final common pathway for a number of different cardiac disorders. This session will discuss the symptoms and signs of left ventricular dysfunction, how it is diagnosed and how its presence affects an anaesthetic plan.
Basic Respiratory Investigations and Lung Function Tests
Steve Graham
0.50 Hours
This session will describe some of the basic respiratory investigations, and explain the relevance of the results obtained.
Fractures and Pathology
Dorothy Keane
0.50 Hours
This session discusses terminology in relation to image interpretation of skeletal radiographs. This will enable the learner to describe fractures, dislocations, pathology and normal variants.
Image Interpretation - Adult Skeleton (X-ray): Foot - Session 3
Kevin Harvell and Kathy Dewar
0.50 Hours
A self-evaluation quiz based on Image Interpretation - Adult Skeleton (X-ray): Foot - Sessions 1 and 2.
Image Interpretation - Adult Skeleton (X-ray): Knee - Session 3
Tracy O’Regan
0.50 Hours
A self-assessment quiz based on Image Interpretation - Adult Skeleton (X-ray): Knee - Sessions 1 and 2.
Image Interpretation - Adult Skeleton (X-ray): Pelvis - Session 2
Joanne Hargreaves
0.50 Hours
A self-assessment exercise based on Image Interpretation - Adult Skeleton (X-ray): Pelvis - Session 1.