How to Take a Dizzy History
Tom Heaps
0.25 Hours
This session will cover how to take a history from a patient presenting with dizziness.
How to Take a Headache History
Edward Dunn
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.
Influence of Transition Points and Crises on Decision-Making in Symptom Management - Palliative Care
Dee Traue
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....
Management of Depression in Palliative Care
Annabel Price and Max Henderson
This session provides a framework for an integrated management of depression.
Drug-induced Hoarseness and Stridor
Salman Haider
0.25 Hours
This session explores the causes of drug-induced hoarseness and stridor.
Investigation and Management of Cough
Salman Haider
0.50 Hours
This session examines the management of cough.
Holistic Approach
Marion Lynch
0.50 Hours
This session introduces the Holistic Approach domain of the RCGP curriculum. It explores patients and GP perceptions of holism and how these influence the presentation of problems, communication, diagnoses and the sharing of management planning. This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in October 2014.
Managing Your Emotions
Roger Neighbour
This session explains the importance of doctors managing their own emotions in the consultation, and suggests some ways that this can be done.
Clinical Supervision and Professional Development
Industry Specialist
4.00 Hours
Supervision is necessary to improve client care, develop the professionalism of clinical personnel, and impart and maintain ethical standards in the field. This CE course focuses on teaching, coaching, consulting, and mentoring functions of clinical supervisors.
Drugs and Dysphagia Part 2
Drugs and Dysphagia Part 2
0.25 Hours
The Drugs and Dysphagia video series is divided into three parts. Parts 1 and 2 discuss the medications affecting the central nervous system and dysphagia. Part 1 provided a review of the central and peripheral nervous systems. This 2 hr video is Part 2 which focuses on specific classes of medications and their effect on dysphag....
Normal Cardiac CT
Carl Roobottom and Nathan Manghat
0.75 Hours
This session covers cardiac computed tomography (CT) principles, indications and the normal cardiac anatomy.
Coarctation of the Aorta
Nick Ring
0.50 Hours
Coarctation of the aorta is a congenital abnormality, which may occur on its own or be associated with other congenital abnormalities, most commonly in the heart. This session will give an overview of the subject including the salient findings that may be encountered on a variety of imaging modalities.
Generic Signs on Plain Radiographs - Part I
Stephen Ellis
0.50 Hours
This session looks at generic signs (such as silhouettes) on chest x-ray (CXR) and computed tomography (CT) scans and how to interpret them. Also covered are the air bronchogram, air crescent, and gloved finger.
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
Russell Jones
0.50 Hours
This session reviews the aetiology, pathology and radiology of hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), also known as extrinsic allergic alveolitis.
HRCT Patterns
Stephen Ellis
0.25 Hours
This session will enable you to recognise and understand the causes of air space shadowing, ground glass, mosaicism and crazy paving.
Imaging of Lung Cancer
Madava Djearaman
0.50 Hours
This session is designed to take you through the radiological diagnosis of lung cancer.
Malignant Mesothelioma
Stephen Ellis
0.25 Hours
This session covers the nature, natural history and associations of malignant mesothelioma including the the features that indicate malignant rather than benign pleural disease. It also details the spectrum of radiographic presentation of mesothelioma and explains the pathologies that may mimic malignant mesothelioma along with....
Imaging and Intervention for Massive Haemoptysis
Tony Nicholson
0.50 Hours
This session covers imaging and interventional radiological treatment of massive haemoptysis.
Graft Imaging and Intervention
Sam Chakraverty
0.50 Hours
This session covers imaging of surgical bypass grafts and prophylactic interventions to prevent occlusion. Details of thrombolysis will be covered in another session.
Interventions for Liver Cancer
John Rose
0.50 Hours
This session outlines the clinical background and the practical aspects of the interventional techniques used in the management of liver tumours.
Modes of Transport
Jennie Irvine and Richard Price and Andrew Inglis and Ben Shippey
0.50 Hours
This session considers the transport options available to critical care teams for the secondary and tertiary transfer of critically ill patients.
Major Obstetric Haemorrhage
Sarah Cross and Vicki Clark
0.50 Hours
This session covers the common causes of major obstetric haemorrhage and its management including that of patients with placenta praevia and placenta accreta.
Liver Failure
Abby Lind and Fran O´Higgins
0.50 Hours
This session outlines the basic management of the causes and sequelae of liver dysfunction in patients with multi-organ failure or sepsis, in particular those patients with previously functionally and histologically normal livers.
Nutritional Requirements in Major Burns
Georgina Phillips and Paul Stephens
0.50 Hours
This session will describe the metabolic effects of a major burn and explain how to assess the nutritional state and nutritional requirements of a patient with a major burn. Later sections will explore the complications associated with excessive feeding.