Dying in Acute Hospitals
Claire Butler
0.5 Hours
This session addresses the key issues to be considered when somebody is dying in a busy acute hospital setting, and how these can be managed. This session was reviewed by Claire Butler and Christina Faull and last updated in June 2015.
Management of Seizures
Anthony Absalom and Dinesh Nethirasigamani
0.5 Hours
This session gives an overview of the emergency and early management of seizures.
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Acute Exacerbations--Unravelling Ariadne's Thread
Spyros A Papiris, Effrosyni D Manali, Likurgos Kolilekas, Konstantinos Kagouridis, Christina Trianta
0.5 Hours
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a dreadful, chronic, and irreversibly progressive fibrosing disease leading to death in all patients affected, and IPF acute exacerbations constitute the most devastating complication during its clinical course.
Mesenteric Ischemia: Pathogenesis and Challenging Diagnostic and Therapeutic Modalities
Aikaterini Mastoraki, Sotiria Mastoraki, Evgenia Tziava, Stavroula Touloumi, Nikolaos Krinos, Nikola
0.5 Hours
Mesenteric ischemia (MI) is an uncommon medical condition with high mortality rates. ΜΙ includes inadequate blood supply, inflammatory injury and eventually necrosis of the bowel wall.
How to Approach Thrombocytopenia
Roberto Stasi
0.5 Hours
Thrombocytopenia is a common hematologic finding with variable clinical expression. A low platelet count may be the initial manifestation of infections such as HIV and hepatitis C virus or it may reflect the activity of life-threatening disorders such as the thrombotic microangiopathies. A correct identification of the causes of....
General Principles of Poisoning
Fran O´Higgins
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the basic management of the patient who has been exposed to poisons. It reviews the important points of patient history taking and examination as well as the general principles of management.
Clinical review: The role of the intensive care physician in mass casualty incidents: planning, organisation, and leadership
Peter J Shirley and Gerlinde Mandersloot
0.5 Hours
There is a long-standing, broad assumption that hospitals will ably receive and efficiently provide comprehensive care to victims following a mass casualty event.
Mechanisms and Effects of Raised Intra-Cranial Pressure
Matt Thomas and Alex Manara
0.5 Hours
This session reviews the physiology relevant to intracranial pressure (ICP) and describes the causes and effects of raised ICP. Techniques of ICP monitoring and the use of ICP- and cerebral-perfusion-pressure-guided therapies are discussed.
Methods of Preventing the 'Second Insult' To the Brain
Matt Thomas and Alex Manara
0.5 Hours
This session focuses on the intensive care management of traumatic brain injury, in particular the avoidance of secondary insults and the use of cerebral perfusion pressure guided therapy.
Is non-operative management safe and effective for all splenic blunt trauma? A systematic review
Industry specialists
0.5 Hours
The goal of non-operative management (NOM) for blunt splenic trauma (BST) is to preserve the spleen. The advantages of NOM for minor splenic trauma have been extensively reported, whereas its value for the more severe splenic injuries is still debated. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the available published evi....
Life Threatening Abdominal Injury
Lisa Munro-Davies
0.5 Hours
This session deals with the assessment and initial management of the patient with life-threatening abdominal trauma.
Landmarks for Tracheostomy and Cricothyrotomy
Campbell Edmondson
0.5 Hours
The session outlines how the anatomical landmarks necessary to perform either cricothyrotomy or tracheostomy can be correctly identified. The differences between the two techniques are highlighted.
Drugs as Organic Molecules
Dr Mary E Stocker MA, MBChB, FRCA
0.5 Hours
This session describes the foundations of organic chemistry and introduces the building blocks required for the understanding of the structure-activity relationships governing drug design, action and interaction in clinical practice.
Metabolic Pathways
Elizabeth Duff
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the basic metabolic pathways and metabolic reactions. It also explains how the body produces and stores energy obtained from the main fuel sources — carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
Interindividual Variation in Drug Response
Sue Hill
0.5 Hours
This session describes how genetic variation contributes to inter-individual response to drug therapy and focuses on drugs of particular importance to anaesthetists.
Functions of Nerve Cells 1
Lesley Bromley
0.5 Hours
This session describes the physiology of the action potential, and how it is generated and conducted along nerves.
Materno-fetal Circulation Changes At Birth
Mary Mushambi
0.5 Hours
This session will explain fetal circulation and the changes which occur at birth.
Co2 Carriage in Blood and Acid-Base Equilibrium
Andy Lumb
0.5 Hours
This session covers the physiology of how carbon dioxide is carried by blood, including its conversion into bicarbonate ions and the role of the red blood cell and haemoglobin in this process. The session also describes how buffers work, and the fundamentals of acid-base balance under both physiological and pathological circumst....
Drugs and the Parasympathetic Nervous System
Natasha Joshi and Jeffrey Handel
0.5 Hours
This session examines the basic anatomy of the parasympathetic nervous system, as well as the synthesis, release and metabolism of neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine in this system and the drugs that act upon these processes.
Non-Depolarizing Muscle Relaxants: General Properties
Elizabeth Flockton and Christopher J Parker
0.5 Hours
This session reviews the structure and function of the neuromuscular junction and introduces the action of the non-depolarizing muscle relaxants.
Heat and Temperature
Ben Messer and Kaye Cantlay
0.5 Hours
This session examines heat, temperature and the transfer of heat, as well as the importance of these concepts to the anaesthetist.
Infusion Devices
Ali Diba
0.5 Hours
This session describes a range of syringes and infusion pumps, their application in modern anaesthetic practice and the hazards associated with their use.
Basic Calculus - Integration
Steven Cruickshank and Patrick Magee
0.5 Hours
This session introduces the concept of integration as the reverse of differentiation. It shows the connection between integration and the evaluation of areas under lines and curves.