Chronic Pain in Children
Christina Liossi and Dilini Rajapakse
0.5 Hours
This session describes the assessment, diagnosis, formulation and management of children who have chronic pain.
Assessing Treatment Effectiveness
Steve Haigh
0.5 Hours
This session describes how to compare the effectiveness of different analgesics and explains why combinations of analgesics are usually the most effective.
Post-operative Electrolyte Management
Bubby Thava and Ridzuan Farouk
0.5 Hours
This session outlines homeostatic mechanisms for sodium, potassium and calcium. It then describes common presentations when these ions are depleted or in excess. Advice on the initial medical management for these conditions is then provided.
Principles of Invasive and Non-Invasive Monitoring
Erin Innes
0.5 Hours
This session outlines anaesthetic monitoring requirements for regional and general anaesthesia (including sedation). Use, interpretation and limitations of non-invasive and invasive monitoring techniques are described.
Chest X-ray in the Older Child with Cardiac Disease
John Partridge
0.5 Hours
This session describes the various abnormalities of heart shape and pulmonary perfusion to be found in the spectrum of congenital heart disease (CHD) beyond infancy.
Organ Trauma Vascular Iatrogenic Trauma and Intravascular Drug Abuse
Morgan P. McMonagle
0.5 Hours
This session describes the types of localised trauma often seen after iatrogenic instrumentation of the peripheral vessels and chronic intravenous drug abuse. This includes complicated groin with bleeding, pseudoaneurysm formation with the potential for superinfection and mycotic aneurysm formation.
Principles of Transplant Immunology and Immunosuppression
Simon Knight
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the basics of transplant immunology and immunosuppression. It will discuss the use of tissue typing to prevent hyperacute rejection and the use of immunosuppressive drugs to help prevent acute and chronic allograft damage. The side effects of commonly used immunosuppressive drugs will be outlined.
Pericardial Disease
Charles Peebles
0.5 Hours
This session covers the normal imaging appearances of the pericardium, normal variants, and pathological findings. The modalities discussed include computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and chest radiography (CXR) with references to echocardiography.
Patterns of Atelectasis and Collapse
Erica Thwaite
0.5 Hours
This session looks at the different types of atelectasis and their common causes. The typical appearance of each type of atelectasis is shown on the chest radiograph (CXR) and computed tomography (CT).
Persistent Consolidation
Sue Kearney
0.5 Hours
The aim of the session is to provide the reader with a clear understanding of the causes of persistent consolidation and to highlight the circumstances where further investigation is mandatory.
Causes of Mediastinal Nodal Disease
John Curtis
0.5 Hours
This session is aimed at achieving an understanding of the causes and appearances of mediastinal nodal disease including nodal calcification and 'egg-shell' calcification.
Percutaneous Nephrostomy: Indications, Techniques and Complications
Philip Haslam
0.5 Hours
This session describes and illustrates some of the ways a patient may present with an obstructed kidney and shows how to relieve the obstruction with nephrostomy insertion.
Pelvic Angiography: Post Partum Haemorrhage
Sam Chakraverty
0.5 Hours
This session details the place of embolisation in the treatment of post partum haemorrhage (PPH).
Contrast Studies of the Upper GI Tract Including Normal Anatomy
Bruce Fox and Petra Williams
0.75 Hours
This session will provide a practical approach to the technique used to perform barium meal, and normal anatomic findings.
Disc Calcification
Ian Minty
0.5 Hours
This session looks at the radiological spectrum of the appearances of disc calcification.
Radiculopathy
Luis Concepcion
0.75 Hours
This session describes the imaging workup of patients with radiculopathy.
Radial Scars and Architectural Distortion in the Breast
Sue Barter, Sabrina Rajan and Erika Denton
0.5 Hours
This session describes the imaging and histopathological features of radial scars, and subsequent management. It also describes the imaging features, differential diagnosis and assessment algorithm for management of mammographic architectural distortion.
Renal Trauma
Tze Wah
0.75 Hours
The principal aim of this session is to provide a simple and effective diagnostic imaging approach for imaging renal trauma. It discusses current practice and controversies, describes the classification and features of urinary tract injuries, defines the indications for imaging and outlines the computed tomography (CT) technique....
Common Uroradiological Syndromes: Autosomal Dominant Syndromes
Camilla Whitten, Emma Wood and Uday Patel
0.5 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).
Paediatric Intussusception
Alan Sprigg
0.5 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.
Acute Abdominal Pain
Rosemary Arthur
1 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.
Assessment of an Enlarged Liver
Alex Barnacle
0.5 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.
Cranial Ultrasonography in Infants: Common Pathologies
Helen Woodley and Rosemary Arthur
0.5 Hours
This session describes common pathologies and lesions affecting the neonatal brain, concentrating on haemorrhagic and ischaemic lesions in the newborn infant. The role of cranial ultrasonography (CUSS) is discussed in identifying these different pathologies.
SAH: Acute Investigation, Treatment and Prevention
Phil White
1 Hours
This session covers the background of subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH), the imaging methods for intracranial aneurysms, aneurysm treatment, common complications of aneurysmal SAH (ASAH) and screening for cerebral aneurysms.