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.
Healthy Eating for Toddlers: 1- 4 years
Catherine Elwig Clinical Lead Paediatric Dietetics, Imperial College London
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....
Human Factors and Patient Safety in Primary Care
Jane Carthey Patient Safety and Human Factors Specialist and Christine Johnson General Practitione
0.50 Hours
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....
Management of Erosion
Alex Milosevic
This session describes how to identify dental erosion and the different treatment options available.
Investigation Management and Treatment of Mitral Stenosis
Ceri Davies
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of the investigation of mitral stenosis and its subsequent management.
Jaundice in the Acute Medicine Setting
Nadia Khan
0.50 Hours
This session covers the presentation, investigation and management of jaundice in the acute setting.
Hypothermia in the Elderly: Causes and Multifactorial Nature
Claire Dow
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.