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This session covers the assessment and management of women who present with vaginal bleeding and pelvic pain in early pregnancy and is illustrated through three separate cases.
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 knee pain in primary care.
0.50 Hours
Local anaesthetic agents are useful adjuncts to general anaesthesia. They can be used to provide local blockade of nerves supplying a surgical area, which can reduce the perioperative use of strong opioid drugs and so reduce the unwanted effects of these agents. They can also be used for regional anaesthesia, but this will be co....
This session introduces the drugs that are used in a range of emergency situations, including intraoperative hypotension, intraoperative bradycardia, acute bronchospasm, anaphylaxis, malignant hyperthermia and cardiac arrest.
This session covers the monitoring the depth of neuromuscular block with a nerve stimulator and body temperature measurement under anaesthesia.
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This session describes why history and examination are important when planning anaesthesia. Identifying factors putting the patient at additional risk should be identified prior to surgery so that peri-operative planning can take them into account.
This session outlines the main additional problems associated with anaesthesia for patients with four common major conditions; obesity, diabetes mellitus, renal disease and blood and coagulation disorders.
This session outlines the additional problems presented to the anaesthetist by two high risk groups of patients who present commonly for surgery. These patients are those at extremes of age and emergency surgery patients.
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This session is an outline of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and bi-level ventilation and their role in treatment of acute respiratory failure.
0.50 Hours
This session describes the optimization of pain control through the rational combination of drug and non-drug modalities.
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This session gives an overview of the nature, aetiology and risk factors linked to eating disorders. Also covered are the diagnostic elements that allow us to distinguish between eating disorders and other conditions affecting the eating behaviour of young people. This session was reviewed by Hilda Mulrooney, Louise Lam and Lisa....
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This session provides essential information on the common causes of pain in the elbow, their associated diagnoses and recommended treatment, as well as an overview of elbow anatomy.
0.50 Hours
This session describes ways of identifying what constitutes healthy eating to satisfy unique toddler requirements. In addition, the session also examines toddler behaviours such as fussy eating and food neophobia and the impact these behaviours can have on nutritional intake. This session was reviewed by Elaine Tabony and update....
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This session provides an overview of the field of human factors, including the human factors challenges in primary care. It also provides explanation of why improving patient safety requires us to consider human factors when designing healthcare systems. This session was reviewed by Louise Newson and last updated in November 201....
This session describes how to identify dental erosion and the different treatment options available.
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of the investigation of mitral stenosis and its subsequent management.
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This session covers the presentation, investigation and management of jaundice in the acute setting.
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the definition and causes of non exposure hypothermia in older people, how to treat it and how to prevent it.
0.25 Hours
This session will cover how to take a history from a patient presenting with dizziness.
This session lists the key points to cover when taking a headache history. These will help you distinguish between headaches that need further investigation and those that do not.
This session discusses how to deal with transition points and crises, both in terms of initial management options and how these options can be explained and discussed with patients approaching the end of life and their relatives and carers. The ways in which these transition points and crises influence decision-making in symptom....
This session provides a framework for an integrated management of depression.
0.25 Hours
This session explores the causes of drug-induced hoarseness and stridor.
0.50 Hours
This session examines the management of cough.