Acute Pain Management
Tacson Fernandez, Ben Thomas and Rob Searle
0.5 Hours
This session describes the assessment, management principles and benefits of early treatment of acute pain.
Developmental Journal Visual Impairment: Developmental Principles (Part 2)
Alison Salt, Naomi Dale and Michelle OReilly
0.5 Hours
This session describes key developmental principles for supporting the baby and child’s progress in development and learning.
Post-operative Monitoring
Richard Barnes
0.5 Hours
This session covers patient monitoring through the peri-operative period, the complications, problems and effects of general anaesthesia, and the levels of care that are available post-operatively.
Psychotic Disorders
Dr Iravindranth Thyagarajan
0.5 Hours
The aim of this session is to explore the terms psychosis and schizophrenia, as well as to describe the pathophysiology, causes, signs and symptoms and basic therapeutic management of psychosis and schizophrenia.
Safe Prescription and Risk Management
Ivan Walton
0.5 Hours
This session gives guidance on how to practice medicine safely and responsibly within a complex organisational system.
Safe Anticoagulation
Rosalind Perrott
0.5 Hours
Anticoagulants have been identified as high risk medicines by the National Patient Safety Agency. This session describes patient and drug factors that should be considered to promote the safe use of anticoagulants in practice.
Safe Prescribing in Renal Impairment
Mee Chai
0.5 Hours
This session will provide an overview of the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes which occur in patients with renal impairment. It will also highlight how changes in drug dosing regimes are necessary to prevent adverse events. Finally, the session will also describe the classification of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and....
Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Part 1)
Nick Cooley and Greg Scutt and Paul Wade
0.5 Hours
The aim of this session is to promote rational use of antibiotics in optimising treatment of patients with infections and reducing emergence of antibiotic resistance. It also highlights factors affecting the route of administration and duration of therapy. Monitoring of antibiotic serum drug levels will be explained.
Assertive Communication
Peter Keane
This session outlines three communication styles: assertive, passive and aggressive. The process and advantages of assertive communication are then described and illustrated in detail. The session supports the development of leadership in clinical settings.
Safeguarding Children - Unexplained Injuries
Giles Armstrong
0.5 Hours
This session will consider the management of an unexplained injury in a child, when there is disagreement between professionals.
Pathophysiology of Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease Causing Cough
Louise Langmead and Elspeth Potton
0.25 Hours
This session focuses on the pathophysiology of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in causing cough.
Ethics and Equity in Planning Services
Bob Klaber
0.5 Hours
This session will explore ethical and equity issues relating to the planning of services, such as equality and diversity, the involvement of patients and the public, the rationing of services and the equitable use of resources. This session supports the development of leadership in clinical settings.
Abdominal pain
Umesh Dashora
0.5 Hours
This session provides the knowledge base required to identify possible causes of abdominal pain and describes an approach to the patient.
Airway maintenance and Oxygen Therapy
Sharon Holland
0.5 Hours
This session illustrates the importance of effective airway maintenance in the recovery room, why oxygen therapy is required and how it can be safely and effectively administered.
Airway Obstruction
Tim Cook, Christopher Seller and Tom Simpson
0.5 Hours
In this session you will learn about airway obstruction during anaesthesia in a spontaneously breathing patient; the causes and clinical signs.
Preventing Pregnancy
Marian Davis
0.5 Hours
This session discusses the issue of preventing teenage pregnancy in general and will identify the factors which have been shown to reduce levels of teenage pregnancy.
PreOxygenation
Fred Roberts FRCA
0.5 Hours
This session outlines what preoxygenation is, why it is used and when to use it, and explains the two main techniques used to achieve it.
Rapid Sequence Induction
Aneeta Sinha and James Dinsmore
0.5 Hours
This session describes rapid sequence induction (RSI), the indications for RSI and how to perform RSI.
Airway Maintenance: Tracheal Tube 2
Tim Cook, Christopher Seller and Tom Simpson
0.5 Hours
This session covers the recognition of correct and incorrect airway placement – for both the tracheal tube (TT) and the supraglottic airway device. The session describes the potential problems encountered, how to make the diagnosis and how to manage the incorrectly placed airway.
Respiratory Problems Anesthesiology
Richard Hughes
0.5 Hours
This session explains the ways in which a critical incident can result from a respiratory problem and suggests a logical sequence for rapidly identifying and correcting the cause.
Request for Organ and Tissue Donation
Christine Elding
0.5 Hours
This session will provide you with information about organ and tissue donation and best practice guidance on alerting bereaved relatives/decision-makers to the potential of donating organs and tissues as part of end of life care. This session was reviewed by Helen Taylor, Jo Davies, Sally Holmes, Tracy Long-Sutewall and Chris....
Dexmedetomidine: its use in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia
VL Scott-Warren MBChB (Hons) FRCA and J Sebastian BSc MBBS MRCP FRCA
0.5 Hours
Dexmedetomidine is a relatively new drug to the UK having been launched in October 2011 with marketing authorization for sedation of adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients only. Despite this, its unique pharmacological profile has led to its unlicensed use in a number of areas of anaesthetic and critical care practice where e....
Principles of Nutrition in the Critically Ill
James Wigfull and Lisa Brown
0.5 Hours
This session introduces the basic principles, and the importance, of nutrition and explains why nutrition in the critically ill differs from healthy subjects. It highlights the difficulties that arise with the delivery of nutrients and describes the commonly-used methods for calculating nutritional requirements.
Prognostication in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest: An advisory statement from the European Resuscitation Council and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Claudio Sandroni, Alain Cariou, Fabio Cavallaro, Tobias Cronberg, Hans Friberg, Cornelia Hoedemaeker
0.5 Hours
Severe neurological impairment caused by hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury is common after resuscitation from cardiac arrest
CEACCP: Amniotic fluid embolism
Jatin D. Dedhia DA DNB FRCA and Mary C. Mushambi FRCA
0.5 Hours
Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a catastrophic obstetric emergency that can present as sudden, profound, and unexpected maternal collapse associated with hypotension, hypoxaemia, and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).