Managing Low Urine Output
Katie Scales
0.50 Hours
This session deals with the presentation and management of the patient with deteriorating urine output.
ECG Interpretation in the Bradycardic Patient
Adil Rajwani
This session will recap the essentials of ECG interpretation, focusing on conduction defects and heart block.
Investigation and Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Alison Muir and Perry Elliott
0.50 Hours
This session covers the investigation, assessment and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
Nausea and Vomiting: Investigations and Management
Farhan Shahid and Anwar Ahmad Chahal
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of the common causes of nausea and vomiting and the aetiology behind such presentations. Treatment options are discussed in terms of the cause of the symptoms.
History in Collapse
Carla Cadiz Aravena
0.25 Hours
This session covers how to take a history for a patient who presents with collapse.
Common and Serious Respiratory Causes of Cough
Veronica White
0.25 Hours
This session focuses on understanding and recognising the common causes of cough and the underlying risk factors.
Importance of Good History
Veronica White
0.25 Hours
This session focuses on the importance of taking a good history when reviewing a patient with a cough.
Investigation and Management of Haematuria
Helen Ford and Sunil Bhandari
The session covers the features in the history and examination along with initial tests that can help distinguish between glomerular and urological causes of haematuria. An algorithm including indications for referral to Nephrology and Urology will be covered.
Closing the Consultation
Adam Fraser and Roger Neighbour
This session explores the ways in which GPs effectively and appropriately close the consultation.
Intervening to Reduce Risk - Brief Behavioural Interventions and a Patient at No Apparent Risk
Philippa Matthews
0.50 Hours
This is the second of four complementary sessions on behavioural and clinical interventions to reduce the risk of patients having, or developing in the future, sexual health problems. The three patients we consider here have a range of needs. There is a focus on interventions to reduce risk and we also consider a patient at no a....
Examination of a 54-Year-Old with Acute Upper Right Abdominal Pain
Sally Harkness - GP, Inverurie
0.50 Hours
This session uses a video clip to demonstrate how to carry out a focused, problem-based physical examination on a patient presenting with acute upper abdominal pain in primary care.
Introduction to Learning Disabilities in the Community
Matt Hoghton - General Practitioner and Medical Director
0.50 Hours
To provide effective education about the health needs and care of people with learning disabilities
Examination of a 60-Year-Old Woman with Shoulder Pain
Patricia M Berry
0.50 Hours
This session uses a video clip to demonstrate how to perform a focused, problem-based physical examination on a patient presenting with shoulder pain in primary care.
Examination of a 60-year-old Man with Unilateral Hearings Loss
Peter Godfrey
0.50 Hours
This session uses a video clip to demonstrate how to carry out a focused, problem-based physical examination on a patient presenting with unilateral hearing loss in primary care.
Hand and Wrist Pain
Richard Smith - Consultant in Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Medicine
0.25 Hours
This session reviews the key hand and wrist conditions which present in primary care.
Health Promotion In Clinical Consultations
Russell Viner - Consultant in Adolescent Medicine & Endocrinology
0.50 Hours
This session will assist you in understanding the practical concepts relating to the promotion of health in adolescents in various settings.
General Theatre Conduct (anaesthesia)
Fiona Kelly
0.50 Hours
This session outlines preoperative checks, as well as the handling of the unconscious patient, infection control issues, and good practice in theatre.
Neuromuscular Blocking Agents (anaesthesia)
Tom Peck
This session describes the relevant pharmacology and the uses of depolarizing and non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs. It also considers the drugs used to reverse their effects and the methods used for monitoring.
Filters, Humidifiers and Scavenging Systems (anaesthesia)
Lisa Penny
0.50 Hours
This session covers the principles of breathing system filters, humidification and anaesthetic gas scavenging.
Local and Regional Anaesthesia
Gavin Werrett
0.50 Hours
This session outlines the basic definitions of local and regional anaesthesia (LA and RA), and advises when to use each as a sole technique and when to use in combination with general anaesthesia (GA). It also covers consent issues, minimal safety standards for block performance and briefly outlines a few of the more common tech....
Haemorrhage and Hypovolaemia
Marcus J Wood MBBS FRCA and Richard Griffiths
0.50 Hours
This session outlines the physiological response to hypovolaemia, and the strategies used to replace fluid losses with appropriate intravenous fluids and blood products. It also compares the differences in the physiological responses to acute hypovolaemia from haemorrhage with those of fluid loss from causes such as gastro intes....
Management of Perioperative Arrest
Jerry Nolan and Ian Densham
0.50 Hours
This session describes the causes of cardiac arrest in the perioperative period and its treatment, particularly where this varies from standard advanced life support procedures, and when caused by anaphylaxis.
Intravenous Fluid Therapy
Marcus J Wood MBBS FRCA and Richard Griffiths
0.50 Hours
The session begins by describing the body fluid compartments and daily fluid requirements. It then considers how each type of IV fluid available is best suited to replacing losses from each compartment.
Dying in Acute Hospitals
Claire Butler
0.50 Hours
This session addresses the key issues to be considered when somebody is dying in a busy acute hospital setting, and how these can be managed. This session was reviewed by Claire Butler and Christina Faull and last updated in June 2015.
Introduction to Mental Health
David Partlow
This session is an introduction to mental illness, it works though statistics which will make you think about the effect mental illness is having on the paramedics in the work place.