Foot Pain
Adrian Dunbar Associate Postgraduate Dean in General Practice Education for the Yorkshire and Humbe
0.25 Hours
Foot pain is a common presentation in primary care. This session considers patients presenting with heel, midfoot and forefoot pain and follows their presentation, assessment and management.
Emotional Development
Barbara Maughan
0.50 Hours
This session looks at the process of emotional development with a description of the basic emotions, when they first appear, and what they mean. We will look at how infants learn to discriminate between emotions and develop secondary emotions. We will describe the importance of parenting in emotional development. We will look at....
Health Promotion in Pregnancy: Obesity
Eugene Ntim Consultant Obstetrician
0.50 Hours
This session aims to raise awareness regarding obesity in pregnancy and its contribution to increased morbidity and mortality for the woman and her baby.This session was reviewed by Amanda Avery and updated in February 2017.
Eye Assessment and Examination
Stella Hornby and Caroline Mawer
0.50 Hours
This session will help you to conduct a quick, general examination of the eyes of an adult in a primary care context. This session was reviewed by Sally Higginbottom and last updated in February 2015.
Listening Skills
Simon Cornwell - Systemic Psychotherapist
0.25 Hours
The session introduces the learner to some of the overarching policy and legislative guidance that underpins the importance of listening to children, through to a summary of listening skills. We will consider barriers to effective listening, include issues of diversity and disability, and take age into account when thinking abou....
Examination of a 60-Year-Old Smoker With Shortness of Breath
Simon Ward - General Practitioner North Nottinghamshire
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 in primary care with worsening breathlessness.
Third Party Consultations
Isabelle Mantella
This session looks at the issues and challenges during consultations with a third party present.
Feeding Children with Development Difficulties
John Puntis - Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Leeds General Infirmary
0.50 Hours
This session explores the difficulty children with neurological disabilities commonly encounter with feeding, together with associated problems that can result in growth failure and malnutrition-related multi-system complications. It covers assessment and management, which often involves a range of professionals including a diet....
Neutropenic Sepsis and Sepsis in Maternity -Complex Safety Issues and Future Development
Simon Stockley and James Larcombe and Alison Tavare
0.50 Hours
This session is aimed at all out of hospital clinicians, GPs, Nurses, Pharmacists, Paramedics, Community Midwives and those providing urgent or unscheduled care. It will explore neutropenic sepsis and sepsis in maternity, potential opportunities for prevention and some of the recent changes and innovation relevant to sepsis.
Fever and Febrile Convulsions
Anisio Veloso Melo Junior
0.50 Hours
This session explains how to assess a child with fever using the "traffic light"™ system. It discusses febrile seizures, their features and management, advice to parents and indications for hospital referral. This session was reviewed by Jenny Bedford and last updated in September 2014.
Introduction to Adolescent Health And Illness
Russel Viner
0.50 Hours
This session introduces learners to key concepts in young people´s health.
Hearing Difficulties in Primary Care
Ewa Raglan
0.50 Hours
This session will describe how to best take care of adult patients presenting with hearing difficulties, as well as how to assess and manage those who require referral to first and second levels of audiology care.
Normal Changes of Ageing
Manminder Sandhu
0.50 Hours
Ageing is a gradual series of changes over time that leads to the loss of function of organs and cells, with the eventual outcome of death. This is a natural process and not a medical condition to be treated. This session looks at the normal changes of ageing.
Early Pregnancy Loss
Nilesh Agarwal
0.50 Hours
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.
Examination of a 30-Year-Old with Anterior Knee Pain
Peter Godfrey
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.
Local Anaesthetic Agents
Sue Hill
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....
Drugs Used in an Emergency (anaesthesia)
Tom Peck
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.
Nerve Stimulators and Temperature Monitoring (anaesthesia)
James Geoghegan
This session covers the monitoring the depth of neuromuscular block with a nerve stimulator and body temperature measurement under anaesthesia.
History and Examination (anaesthesia)
John Carlisle
0.50 Hours
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.
Medical Conditions 2 - Miscellaneous
Richard Telford
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.
Higher Risk Groups: Extremes of Age and Emergency Surgery (anaesthesia)
Richard Telford
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.
Non Invasive Respiratory Support
Peter MacNaughton
0.50 Hours
This session is an outline of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and bi-level ventilation and their role in treatment of acute respiratory failure.
Multi-modal Analgesia
Mick Serpell
0.50 Hours
This session describes the optimization of pain control through the rational combination of drug and non-drug modalities.
Eating Disorders In Young People
Dasha Nicholls Consultant Child and Adolescent Psyschiatrist
0.50 Hours
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....
Elbow Pain
Satpal Shekhawat
0.50 Hours
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.