Neonatal Assessment and Examination
Soumendra Chowdhury
0.5 Hours
This session explains the six to eight week 'baby check' review and describes some of the common or important abnormalities found in young infants. This session was reviewed by Sally Higginbottom and last updated in September 2014.
Making Hospital Services Youth Friendly
Dominic McCutheon Clinical Practice Facilitator
0.5 Hours
This session explores the strong evidence and need for dedicated adolescent services in hospitals, and how to implement youth friendly services in the hospital setting.
Hospital Based Services for Young People
Christine Powell
0.5 Hours
This session explores the needs of young people accessing hospital services. It examines young people friendly services and the advantages and disadvantages of adolescent inpatient wards.
Common and Serious Respiratory Causes of Cough
Veronica White
0.25 Hours
This session focuses on understanding and recognising the common causes of cough and the underlying risk factors.
Level 2 Part B – Response in Secondary Care
Andrea Goddard Consultant Paediatrician
0.5 Hours
This session uses case studies to help clinical staff who have some degree of contact with children and young people and/or parents/carers to know what are the appropriate responses when they have concerns that a child or young person is being maltreated. It is important to note that the term 'children' means children and young....
Filters, Humidifiers and Scavenging Systems (anaesthesia)
Lisa Penny
0.5 Hours
This session covers the principles of breathing system filters, humidification and anaesthetic gas scavenging.
Local and Regional Anaesthesia
Gavin Werrett
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the basic definitions of local and regional anaesthesia (LA and RA), and advises when to use each as a sole technique and when to use in combination with general anaesthesia (GA). It also covers consent issues, minimal safety standards for block performance and briefly outlines a few of the more common tech....
Intravenous Fluid Therapy
Marcus J Wood MBBS FRCA and Richard Griffiths
0.5 Hours
The session begins by describing the body fluid compartments and daily fluid requirements. It then considers how each type of IV fluid available is best suited to replacing losses from each compartment.
Haemorrhage and Hypovolaemia
Marcus J Wood MBBS FRCA and Richard Griffiths
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the physiological response to hypovolaemia, and the strategies used to replace fluid losses with appropriate intravenous fluids and blood products. It also compares the differences in the physiological responses to acute hypovolaemia from haemorrhage with those of fluid loss from causes such as gastro intes....
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.