Management of Seizures
Anthony Absalom and Dinesh Nethirasigamani
0.50 Hours
This session gives an overview of the emergency and early management of seizures.
Mesenteric Ischemia: Pathogenesis and Challenging Diagnostic and Therapeutic Modalities
Aikaterini Mastoraki, Sotiria Mastoraki, Evgenia Tziava, Stavroula Touloumi, Nikolaos Krinos, Nikola
0.50 Hours
Mesenteric ischemia (MI) is an uncommon medical condition with high mortality rates. ΜΙ includes inadequate blood supply, inflammatory injury and eventually necrosis of the bowel wall.
General Surgery: Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage - Upper
Amandine Woodham and Cynthia-M Borg
0.25 Hours
Upper gastro-intestinal bleeding is a common and sometimes life threatening problem. This session discusses the symptoms, causes, resuscitation, scoring and further management of these patients.
How to Approach Thrombocytopenia
Roberto Stasi
0.50 Hours
Thrombocytopenia is a common hematologic finding with variable clinical expression. A low platelet count may be the initial manifestation of infections such as HIV and hepatitis C virus or it may reflect the activity of life-threatening disorders such as the thrombotic microangiopathies. A correct identification of the causes of....
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Acute Exacerbations--Unravelling Ariadne's Thread
Spyros A Papiris, Effrosyni D Manali, Likurgos Kolilekas, Konstantinos Kagouridis, Christina Trianta
0.50 Hours
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a dreadful, chronic, and irreversibly progressive fibrosing disease leading to death in all patients affected, and IPF acute exacerbations constitute the most devastating complication during its clinical course.
General Principles of Poisoning
Fran O´Higgins
0.50 Hours
This session outlines the basic management of the patient who has been exposed to poisons. It reviews the important points of patient history taking and examination as well as the general principles of management.
Great Vessels, Main Peripheral Arteries and Veins
Kirti Mukherjee
0.50 Hours
This session describes the four sets of great vessels originating or terminating in the heart, along with their major branches and tributaries in the thorax, abdomen and limbs.
Landmarks for Tracheostomy and Cricothyrotomy
Campbell Edmondson
0.50 Hours
The session outlines how the anatomical landmarks necessary to perform either cricothyrotomy or tracheostomy can be correctly identified. The differences between the two techniques are highlighted.
Co2 Carriage in Blood and Acid-Base Equilibrium
Andy Lumb
0.50 Hours
This session covers the physiology of how carbon dioxide is carried by blood, including its conversion into bicarbonate ions and the role of the red blood cell and haemoglobin in this process. The session also describes how buffers work, and the fundamentals of acid-base balance under both physiological and pathological circumst....
Functions of Nerve Cells 1
Lesley Bromley
0.50 Hours
This session describes the physiology of the action potential, and how it is generated and conducted along nerves.
Metabolic Pathways
Elizabeth Duff
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of the basic metabolic pathways and metabolic reactions. It also explains how the body produces and stores energy obtained from the main fuel sources — carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
Materno-fetal Circulation Changes At Birth
Mary Mushambi
0.50 Hours
This session will explain fetal circulation and the changes which occur at birth.
Drugs as Organic Molecules
Dr Mary E Stocker MA, MBChB, FRCA
0.50 Hours
This session describes the foundations of organic chemistry and introduces the building blocks required for the understanding of the structure-activity relationships governing drug design, action and interaction in clinical practice.
Interindividual Variation in Drug Response
Sue Hill
0.50 Hours
This session describes how genetic variation contributes to inter-individual response to drug therapy and focuses on drugs of particular importance to anaesthetists.
Normal Cardiac Anatomy by Echocardiography
Navroz Masani
0.50 Hours
This session provides a description of the normal adult transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE). It cover the modalities of Doppler ultrasound utilised, the standard views, measurements and calculations.
Infective Endocarditis
Oliver Tann, Mark Hamilton and Peter Wilde
0.50 Hours
This session covers the epidemiology, pathophsyiology, radiology and management of infective endocarditis.
Grown-Up Congenital Heart Disease
Peter Wilde
0.50 Hours
This session sets out the basic language and pathophysiology of congenital heart disease. The clinical approach in adult congenital heart disease is described using imaging examples, especially magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Mediastinal Nodal Disease
Hilary Moss
0.75 Hours
In this session, we look at identification of normal and abnormally enlarged lymph nodes on the plain chest x-ray (CXR) and computed tomography (CT).
Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis and Other ANCA-Associated Vasculitides
Andrew Thrower, Roderick Robertson
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the clinical and radiological manifestations of the antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides in the chest.
Interventions for Colonic Strictures
Andrew Leonard, Brent Drake, Bruce Fox
0.50 Hours
This session reviews the indications, complications and technique of colonic stenting.
Interventions for the Failing Liver Transplant
John Rose
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the clinical background and practical aspects of image guided interventional techniques used in the management of the complications of liver transplantation.
Imaging Assessment of Cervical Spine Trauma in Adults
Paula Richards and Surabhi Choudhary
0.50 Hours
This session discusses cervical spine imaging and the assessment of craniocervical and cervical vertebral alignment. Common injury patterns resulting in cervical spine (C-spine) injury are also described in this session.
Injuries of the Craniocervical Junction
Ramy Mansour MSc FRCR
0.50 Hours
This session describes the normal anatomy of the craniocervical junction (CCJ), the different mechanisms and patterns of injury and the roles of plain x-ray, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in imaging of upper cervical spine.
Gonorrhoea: Natural History and Management
Jonathan Ross
0.50 Hours
This session introduces the key aspects of gonorrhoea, its presentation and management.
Managing Hormonal Side Effects of Hormonal Contraceptives
Elizabeth Kennedy
0.50 Hours
Assessment and management of hormonal side effects in users of hormonal contraceptives.