Flash Visual Evoked Potentials
Ruth Hamilton
0.5 Hours
This session covers the underlying physiological changes measured by flash visual evoked potentials (Flash VEP), clinical indications for performing the test, how it is carried out and the interpretation of a Flash VEP report.
Balints Ideas
John Salinsky
0.5 Hours
This session introduces Michael Balint, outlines his principal ideas and describes his innovative use of the case discussion group to help doctors understand the doctor-patient relationship.
Impact of Postnatal Mother and Baby Separation
Dr Ambalika Das
0.25 Hours
This session provides evidence which emphasises the importance of avoiding mother and baby separation in the postnatal period. It provides best practice guidance to healthcare staff on how to support an optimal outcome for both mother and baby by keeping them together.
How to do an Ophthalmology Examination
Rosemary Robinson and Ian De Silva
0.5 Hours
This session is designed to help you take a structured approach to an eye examination.
Evaluation of Vitreo-retinal Lesions
Hatem Riad Atta FRCSEd, FRCOphth, DO
0.5 Hours
This session covers the ultrasound (US) detection and diagnosis of vitreo-retinal lesions including retinal tears, retinal detachment, posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) and choroidal detachment. The role of US in the evaluation of blunt ocular trauma and detection of intra-ocular foreign body (IOFB) will also be covered.
IUT: Insertion
Wendy Morris
0.5 Hours
This session demonstrates how to insert an intrauterine device (Cu-IUD) and the intrauterine systems (LNG-IUS).
Nutrition and Health
Annabel Alder and Ruth Kander and Mary Hickson
0.5 Hours
This session identifies the reciprocal relationship between health state and nutritional status.
Integrating Self Care into Current Practice
Patricia Wilkie
0.5 Hours
This session provides an opportunity to confirm your understanding of various possible approaches to supporting patient self care. This is achieved through evaluation of other health professionals’ practice and should aid the learner in determining what self care approaches might be used to maximum effect in a given circumstance....
Jaundice in the Acute Medicine Setting
Nadia Khan
0.5 Hours
This session covers the presentation, investigation and management of jaundice in the acute setting.
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.
Evaluation and Advice on Good Inhaler Technique
Swapna Manda
0.5 Hours
This session will show you how to assess your patients’ inhaler techniques, and describes the different range of inhalers that are available and when different types of inhalers or a nebuliser should be prescribed.
Listening Skills
Simon Cornwell - Systemic Psychotherapist
0.25 Hours
The session introduces the learner to some of the overarching policy and legislative guidance that underpins the importance of listening to children, through to a summary of listening skills. We will consider barriers to effective listening, include issues of diversity and disability, and take age into account when thinking abou....
Investigation and Management of Cough
Salman Haider
0.5 Hours
This session examines the management of cough.
Drug-induced Hoarseness and Stridor
Salman Haider
0.25 Hours
This session explores the causes of drug-induced hoarseness and stridor.
Local Anaesthetic Agents
Sue Hill
0.5 Hours
Local anaesthetic agents are useful adjuncts to general anaesthesia. They can be used to provide local blockade of nerves supplying a surgical area, which can reduce the perioperative use of strong opioid drugs and so reduce the unwanted effects of these agents. They can also be used for regional anaesthesia, but this will be co....
Non Invasive Respiratory Support
Peter MacNaughton
0.5 Hours
This session is an outline of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and bi-level ventilation and their role in treatment of acute respiratory failure.
Multi-modal Analgesia
Mick Serpell
0.5 Hours
This session describes the optimization of pain control through the rational combination of drug and non-drug modalities.
Liver Failure
Abby Lind and Fran O´Higgins
0.5 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.
Major Obstetric Haemorrhage
Sarah Cross and Vicki Clark
0.5 Hours
This session covers the common causes of major obstetric haemorrhage and its management including that of patients with placenta praevia and placenta accreta.
Modes of Transport
Jennie Irvine and Richard Price and Andrew Inglis and Ben Shippey
0.5 Hours
This session considers the transport options available to critical care teams for the secondary and tertiary transfer of critically ill patients.
Electrical Injuries
Anastassios C. Koumbourlis, MD, MPH
0.5 Hours
Electrical injury is a relatively infrequent but potentially devastating form of multisystem injury with high morbidity and mortality. Most electrical injuries in adults occur in the workplace, whereas children are exposed primarily at home. In nature, electrical injury occurs due to lightning, which also carries the highest mor....
Macroscopic Anatomy of the Brain, CSF, Meninges
Christopher Taylor and Nicholas Hirsch
0.5 Hours
This session will cover the gross anatomy of the brain, cerebrospinal fluid production and circulation and the anatomy of the meninges.
Facial Skeleton
Peter Venn
0.5 Hours
This session describes the bones of the facial skeleton and skull vault. The important muscles that move the mandible are described. The classification and positions of fracture lines commonly seen following trauma to the face and surgical osteotomy are also covered.
Hazards of Positioning and Pressure Areas
Stephen Fenlon and James Nicholson
0.5 Hours
The patient positioned for surgery is vulnerable to extraneous harm. Knowledge of the common injuries and understanding of the causes of harm enables the anaesthetist to minimize the risks.
Loop of Henle, Distal Tubule and Collecting Tubule
Clifford Dwenger MbChB MRCP FRCA EDIC
0.5 Hours
This session will explain the importance of the interrelated functions of the loop of Henle, distal tubule and collecting tubule in the regulatory functions of the kidney.