Unintended Pregnancy: Early Pregnancy Assessment, Abortion and Referral
Kathy French
0.50 Hours
This session highlights the process of diagnosing, managing and referring women with an unintended/unwanted pregnancy.
Understanding the Patient's Perspective
Julie Cumming
0.50 Hours
This session aims to increase awareness and understanding of factors affecting patients' perceptions of sexual and reproductive healthcare services and highlights the importance of an inclusive service, sensitive to patients' lifestyles, cultural backgrounds and religious beliefs.
The Holistic Approach to Assessment and Management
Louise Pennington
0.50 Hours
This session aims to provide an understanding of the principles of providing person centred care to a person with a palliative illness through holistic assessment and care planning, as applied to paramedic practice.
The Neuromuscular Junction and The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
Sue Hill
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of the structure and function of the skeletal neuromuscular junction. It identifies sites at which drugs and toxins interrupt signal transmission between motor nerves and the mechanism of excitation-contraction coupling.
Thromboprophylaxis and Thrombosis
Polly Davies
0.50 Hours
This session examines aspects of thromboprophylaxis and thrombosis, including the aetiology, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment, and the impact on healthcare costs.
Vaporizers, Oxygen Flush and Alarms
Baha Al-Shaikh
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of the anaesthetic machine and examines the function, design and safety features of vaporizers and their filling devices, the emergency oxygen flush system and the oxygen supply failure alarm.
Tracheostomy and Cricothyrotomy Tubes
Richard Templeton and Brendan McGrath
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of the various types of tracheostomy tube and the appropriate clinical uses for each. The session also includes an overview of the equipment available for performing emergency cricothyrotomy.
Wrights Respirometer, Pneumotachograph and Ventilator Alarms
Baha Al-Shaikh and Rajesh Pattanayak
0.50 Hours
Anaesthetists measure the patient’s tidal volume during anaesthesia, in ICU and during transport. In addition, over- and under-pressure alarms are used during controlled ventilation. This session will provide an overview of Wright’s respirometer, the pneumotachograph, and the ventilator alarms and their functionality.
Spinal Needles
André van Zundert and Baha Al Shaikh
0.50 Hours
Spinal anaesthesia is a very popular technique used worldwide. Needles of various designs are used with different lengths and sizes. This session explores the history of development of spinal needles, an overview of basic design of a spinal needle and its effect on the incidence of post dural puncture headache (PDPH). Equipment....
Small Bowel Obstruction
Sathi Sukumar
0.50 Hours
This session describes how to image small bowel obstruction (SBO), as well as the radiological features and pitfalls involved in imaging.
Surgical Considerations In ICU
Dan Titcomb
This session explores the management of surgical patients in the ICU.
Trachea, Main Bronchi, Broncho-Pulmonary Segments
Adrian Pearce
0.50 Hours
This session describes the structure, relations, blood and nerve supply of the trachea, carina, main bronchi and major bronchopulmonary segments.
Spinal Cord, Major Ascending and Descending Pathways
Christopher Taylor and Nicholas Hirsch
0.50 Hours
This session covers the anatomy of the spinal cord, and focuses on the spinal nerves, and the nerve pathways ascending and descending, through its structure. It also covers the blood supply to the spinal cord.
The Globe of the Eye
Andy Presland
0.50 Hours
Applied anatomy of the eyeball and its contents. This session describes the main layers of the eye and explains their composition and function. It also looks at some common pathological ocular conditions.
Suture Materials and Needles
Elizabeth Wharton and Matt Erdmann
0.50 Hours
This session will describe the characteristics of the various suture materials and needles currently available and offer guidance as to their appropriate use.
Screening for Heart Disease
John Giles
0.50 Hours
This session covers the population screening for coronary artery disease.
Tetralogy of Fallot
Charles Peebles
0.25 Hours
This session covers the basic anatomy and physiology of tetralogy of Fallot. The typical imaging appearances are illustrated with particular emphasis on the role of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the follow-up and management of postoperative patients.
Staging of Lung Cancer
Stephen Ellis
0.50 Hours
This session describes the radiology of Tumour, Nodal, Metastases (TNM) classification of staging of lung cancer.
Ultrasound Arterial Imaging: Principles
Jai Patel
0.50 Hours
Vascular ultrasound is a non-invasive method of assessing patients with arterial disease. Knowledge of the physics of Doppler ultrasound is assumed and will not be covered in detail in this module. The indications and technique of scanning the lower limb arteries will be outlined.
The Basics of Embolisation
Tony Nicholson
0.50 Hours
This session will describe the percutaneous endovascular use of a variety of materials to achieve vascular occlusion and look at relevant considerations when embolising.
Urinary Tract Bleeding
Robert Bradley, Graham Robinson
0.50 Hours
This session outlines the clinical background of urinary tract bleeding and the minimally invasive management options.
Ultrasound and CT Guided Drainage
David Kessel and Tze Wah
0.50 Hours
This session covers the basic principles of performing guided drainage of fluid collections using ultrasound or computed tomography (CT).
Statistics: Confidence
Sue Hill
0.50 Hours
This session introduces the use of confidence intervals to give a measure of the uncertainty surrounding point estimation of population parameters from sample statistics, with particular reference to the mean.
Statistics: Samples of Unknown Mean and Variance
Sue Hill
0.50 Hours
This session explores how samples taken from different normally distributed populations may be compared, even though the population means and variances are unknown. The two-sample (unpaired) t-test is introduced for the comparison of sample means, and the F-test is introduced for the comparison of sample variances.
Screening Programmes Part 2: Antenatal and Newborn through to Pre-school
Joanne Harcombe
0.25 Hours
This session describes and discusses the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, the NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination Programme, the NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme and Pre-school screening tests.