Feeding Preterm Infants in Neonatal Units
Karen Hayes - Neonatal Dietitian, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University NHS Foundation Trust
0.5 Hours
This session is designed to introduce you to the nutritional needs of the preterm infant. It is designed to take you through some of the nutritional factors affecting preterm infants, including preterm nutritional requirements, growth and feeding methods and establishing feeds. In this session we will also focus on preterm enter....
Multi-Disciplinary Discharge Planning
Mohamed Hamid
0.5 Hours
This session focuses on the role of the Multidisciplinary team in organising a patient´s safe discharge from hospital. It describes the role of each member of the team and how they work together to ensure the patient is discharged in a safe and timely manner, so as to reduce readmission rates, improve effective use of hospital b....
Health Communication and Young People: Setting the Scene
Dick Churchill and Deborah Christie
0.5 Hours
Young people, parents, and health professionals each enter any health consultation with their own agenda and preconceived ideas. These will have an impact on the communication that subsequently takes place. In this session we describe some of the attitudes, emotions and issues that may affect the consultation and suggest ways by....
Investigation and Management of Diarrhoea
Harjit Bains
0.5 Hours
This session addresses the assessment, investigation and management of diarrhoea, with a particular focus on common conditions that present in the acute medical setting.
Haematemesis and Melaena: Causes, Risk Stratification and Management
Mridula Rajwani
0.5 Hours
This session reviews the causes of haematemesis and melaena. It covers the principles of resuscitation and risk stratification. It also discusses the management (both pharmacological and endoscopic) of patients who present with upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
Investigation and Management of Sarcoidosis
Kirsten Archer
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of how to investigate a patient with suspected sarcoidosis. It looks at how to follow up those diagnosed with the condition and it includes some information on appropriate treatment.
Infant Feeding Part 2: Formula Feeding
Mary Renfrew PhD, BSc, RM, RGN, DN - Professor of Mother and Infant Health in the University of York
0.5 Hours
This session will give you the information you need to help parents and carers to minimise the risks of formula feeding.This session was reviewed by Amanda Avery and updated in February 2017.
Interpreting Family Histories and Identifying Patients Part 2: Sex-linked Conditions and Conditions with Variable Patterns of Inheritance
Michelle Bishop and Peter Farndon
0.5 Hours
This is the second of three sessions that consider interpreting family histories and identifying patients with, or at risk of, a genetic condition. Here we cover several important X-linked recessive conditions, including haemophilia A and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The X-linked form of retinitis pigmentosa and the inheritance....
Introduction to Quality Improvement
Clare Price-Dowd Specialist Associate Knowledge & Learning, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improv
0.5 Hours
This session will introduce you to quality improvement in healthcare, in particular the role of the clinician, the discipline of improvement, the people and leadership skills involved, and the main approaches and tools. This session supports the development of leadership in clinical settings.
Medical Gas Supplies (anaesthesia)
Tom Clutton-Brock
0.5 Hours
This session introduces the essentials of the storage and delivery of medical gases used in anaesthesia.
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.
Management of Slow and Failed Recovery (anaesthesia)
Matthew Hill
0.5 Hours
This session describes how to perform the transfer of a patient from theatre to recovery safely, and explains the responsibilities of the anaesthetist for the handover to recovery staff.
Management of Failed Intubation
Tim Cook, Christopher Seller and Tom Simpson
0.5 Hours
This session will describe the management of a failed intubation. This can be a life threatening scenario, especially if it occurs in conjunction with an inability to ventilate. This session will also introduce and explain the Difficult Airway Society guidelines for the management of this group of patients.
Myocardial Infarction
Gerald Carr-White and Manish Verma
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the assessment and treatment of patients with acute coronary syndrome.
Intravenous Fluids
Sue Hill
0.5 Hours
This session introduces the types of intravenous fluids available for use during and after surgery. These fluids can be classified into colloids and crystalloids and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Blood and blood products are not covered.
Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts and Organ Transplant Recipients: Essentials.
Jay A. Fishman
0.5 Hours
The possible etiologies of infections are diverse;they range from common bacterial and viral patho-gens that affect the entire community to opportunis-tic pathogens that are clinically significant only forimmunocompromised hosts.
Hepatorenal Syndrome: Update on Diagnosis and Treatment
Olga Baraldi, Chiara Valentini, Gabriele Donati, Giorgia Comai, Vania Cuna, Irene Capelli, Maria Lau
0.5 Hours
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in patients with end-stage liver disease and advanced cirrhosis regardless of the underlying cause. Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS), a functional form of kidney failure, is one of the many possible causes of AKI. HRS is potentially reversible but involves highly complex pathogenetic....
Management of STEMI and its Complications
Jason Kendall and Elizabeth Florey
0.5 Hours
Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) encompass a range of presentations including unstable angina (UA), non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). This session addresses the management of STEMI and its complications.
Clostridium difficile Infection in the Intensive Care Unit
David J. Riddle, M.D. and Erik R. Dubberke, M.D., M.S.P.H.
0.5 Hours
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is becoming more common worldwide. The morbidity and mortality associated with C. difficile is also increasing at an alarming rate. Critically ill patients are at particularly high risk for this disease due to the prevalence of multiple risk factors in the patient population. Treatment of....
Fungal infections and critically ill adults
Martin Beed FRCA FFICM DM Richard Sherman MRCP FRCA FFICM Stephen Holden MSc FRCPath
0.5 Hours
Although there are many different species of fungi, relatively few are responsible for human illnesses. Fungal infections associated with critical illness are thought to be increasing in incidence, possibly as a result of the increasing population of immunocompromised individuals, more aggressive medical interventions and proce....
Fluid management for trauma; where are we now?
Richard P Dutton MD MBA
0.5 Hours
This article will review the pathophysiology of haemorrhagic shock and will briefly address emerging and controversial therapies.
Initial Assessment of the Burn Patient
Jana Torres-Grau and Jonathon Pleat
0.5 Hours
This session describes the steps that should be taken during the initial assessment of patients with major burns. Later sections will identify the life threatening complications that may arise in the early period after a burn has occurred.
Electrical Safety 1: Biological Effects, Electrical Hazards
Patrick Magee
0.5 Hours
This session examines the effects of electricity on different biological tissues, the way electricity is generated and supplied to electrical devices and how electrical hazards may arise for the patient connected to an electromedical device.
Initial Management of Chemical Burns
Henrietta Creasy and Peter Drew
0.5 Hours
This session will describe how to decontaminate the skin following chemical exposure, focusing in depth on the initial treatment of hydrofluoric acid and phosphorus burns.
Fluid Resuscitation in Burns
Onur Gilleard and Nora Nugent
0.5 Hours
This session explores the changes that affect fluid balance following a major burn. Later sections describe the resuscitation fluids that are used and the complications that can result from fluid resuscitation.