Genitourinary Disease: Haematuria
Madeline Moore
0.50 Hours
This session will provide an overview of haematuria including when it’s significant, its causes and initial investigations and management.
Endocrine: Acute Endocrine Crises
Constantine Halkias and Vas Constantinides
0.25 Hours
This session looks at the importance of the surgical trainee to be able to recognize, formulate a treatment plan and select surgical intervention for acute endocrine crises.
General Paediatric Trauma - Special Considerations
Kevin Cao and Alexander Alexiou
0.50 Hours
An introduction to important considerations in Paediatric trauma as well as considerations in assessing patients with non-accidental injuries.
Fractures: Classification of Fractures
Efthymios Iliopoulos
0.50 Hours
This session will review the most commonly used classifications of fractures and describe their clinical relevance.
Management of Blood Glucose
Jan Idkowiak
0.50 Hours
This session outlines the importance of regular insulin therapy, blood glucose monitoring, and the role of diet in the management of type 1 diabetes.
IUT: Managing Unexpected Situations and Complications
John Bland
0.50 Hours
This session identifies problems which may arise during insertion of intrauterine contraceptive methods and describes how to manage those situations.
Local Anaesthesia for Subdermal Implant Insertion and Removal
Liz Stephens
0.50 Hours
This session explores the principles of local anaesthetic use for subdermal implant (SDI) insertion and removal.
Genital Ulcerations
Tatiana Tchikhiaeva and Martin Talbot
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of the common causes of genital ulceration, their diagnosis and basic management.
Mechanism of Action and Contraceptive Effectiveness
Sam Rowlands
0.50 Hours
This session covers modes of action of contraceptives, distinctions between reversible and permanent methods, differences in discontinuation rates between methods and how contraceptive failure is measured.
Drug Addiction, Dependency and Pain - Management
James Bell
This session describes the key concepts of the management of pain in patients with a history of substance misuse
Heuristics and Bias
Kerry Crawley
0.50 Hours
Heuristics are defined as ‘mental shortcuts’, abbreviated decision making’ processes, or rules that allow us to simplify complex decisions.
Hypothetico-deductive Decision Making
Kerry Crawley
0.50 Hours
Along with pattern recognition, the hypothetico-deductive method is the most prevalent mode of decision making in emergency care (Xu et al.2012).
Drugs Acting on the Respiratory System
John Kinnear
0.50 Hours
This session looks at drugs which are used primarily for their effects on the respiratory system, with particular emphasis on those drugs that may be encountered by the anaesthetist. Therapies for the management of acute asthma are only briefly mentioned since they will be explored in greater detail in Module 07c/Systematic Phar....
Drugs Used in the Treatment of Acute Asthma
John Kinnear
0.50 Hours
This session considers the management of acute asthma from a mainly pharmacological perspective. A clinical case is described for illustrative purposes.
Newtonian Mechanics
Elke Kothmann and Kaye Cantlay
0.50 Hours
The aim of this session is to consider the concepts of force and mass and to introduce Newton’s three laws of motion.
Gases in Solution
Rahul Bajekal
0.50 Hours
This session looks at some physical principles behind gas solubility and their clinical applications.
Gases and Vapours
Harriet Wood and Derek Randles
0.50 Hours
This session covers the concepts of vapours and saturated vapour pressure, and explains the principles of latent heat, adiabatic change and isothermal change.
Molecular Structure and Isomerism
Gary Enever
0.50 Hours
This session describes the main types of isomers and outlines the way in which isomerism plays a part in determining the comparative pharmacological effects of a range of compounds.
Emergency and Transport Ventilators
David Baker
0.50 Hours
This session defines emergency and transport ventilation and looks at the features of the ventilators used in these situations.
Haemofiltration and Dialysis
John E Morris
This session outlines the structure and function of equipment used for renal replacement therapy.
Myocardial Infarction
Gerald Carr-White and Manish Verma
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of the assessment and treatment of patients with acute coronary syndrome.
Management of STEMI and its Complications
Jason Kendall and Elizabeth Florey
0.50 Hours
Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) encompass a range of presentations including unstable angina (UA), non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). This session addresses the management of STEMI and its complications.
Hepatorenal Syndrome: Update on Diagnosis and Treatment
Olga Baraldi, Chiara Valentini, Gabriele Donati, Giorgia Comai, Vania Cuna, Irene Capelli, Maria Lau
0.50 Hours
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in patients with end-stage liver disease and advanced cirrhosis regardless of the underlying cause. Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS), a functional form of kidney failure, is one of the many possible causes of AKI. HRS is potentially reversible but involves highly complex pathogenetic....
Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts and Organ Transplant Recipients: Essentials.
Jay A. Fishman
0.50 Hours
The possible etiologies of infections are diverse;they range from common bacterial and viral patho-gens that affect the entire community to opportunis-tic pathogens that are clinically significant only forimmunocompromised hosts.
Goodpasture's Disease Signs and Symptoms
Prina Ruparelia
This session will discuss the symptoms and signs of Goodpasture’s disease.