Image Interpretation - Adult Skeleton (X-ray): Hip - Session 1
Kara Mell
This session will look at injuries related to the hip joint and femur. It will focus on identifying anatomy demonstrated on both diagrams and radiographs, and offer examples of radiographic technique. Mechanisms of injury (MOI) will be discussed to develop a knowledge base in clinical presentations.
Community Pharmacy Services
Mr Emmanuel Chiona
Community pharmacies play a vital role in healthcare delivery. This session provides an overview of essential services and explores advanced and enhanced offerings that are redefining the profession. As the pharmacy landscape continues to evolve globally, we'll discuss the emerging roles of community pharmacy personnel. A k....
Module 1: Overview and Introduction
Tania Farha and Riet Groenen, Upala Devi and Luis Mora, Claudia Garcia Moreno and Avni Amin, Suki Beavers, Niki Palmer and Charles Chauvel, Claudia Baroni and Sven Pfeiffer
Module 1 offers an introduction to the Package, as well as foundational elements and information on how to use this tool.
Image Interpretation - Adult Skeleton (X-ray): Hand - Session 2
Dorothy Keane
This session will describe common fractures, pathologies and normal variants found in the fingers, thumb and metacarpals. These will be illustrated using radiographic examples.
Image Interpretation - Adult Skeleton (X-ray): Radius and Ulna
Paul O'Riordan
This session will look at injuries related to the radius and ulna. It will focus on identifying anatomy demonstrated on both diagrams and radiographs, and offer examples of radiographic technique. Mechanisms of injury (MOI) will be discussed to develop a knowledge base in clinical presentations. Common fractures, pathologies and....
Image Interpretation - Adult Skeleton (X-ray): Carpal Bones - Session 1
Claire Giles
This session will look at injuries related to the carpal bones. It will focus on identifying anatomy demonstrated on both diagrams and radiographs, and offer examples of radiographic technique. Mechanisms of injury (MOI) will be discussed to develop a knowledge base in clinical presentations. Common fractures, pathologies and no....
X-ray: The Appendicular Skeleton (Adult)
Dorothy Keane, Claire Giles, Paul O'Riordan, Sarah Gallimore, Joanne Hargreaves, Nick Woznitza, Kevin Harvell, Kathy Dewar, Tracy O'Regan, Kara Mell
The courses in this learning path cover content relevant to image interpretation of the adult appendicular skeleton: Please note that while these e-learning sessions include information on how to write up a report, they will not qualify you to become a reporting radiographer.
Primary Health Care: The Foundation for Universal Health Coverage
Mr Basiru Taofeek Adekola
This presentation explores how Primary Health Care (PHC) serves as the essential groundwork for achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). It examines PHC's unique role in providing accessible, comprehensive, and affordable care, especially in underserved areas. Key topics include how PHC promotes health equity, supports disease....
Principles of Nerve Repair
Andy Cassels-Brown
This session describes the need for ophthalmic public health and introduces the sessions in the Community Ophthalmology module.
Introduction to Pharmacokinetics and Modelling
Sue Hill
This session will introduce pharmacokinetics and modelling. The simple one-compartment model will be described and reasons presented as to why such a model rarely describes drug behaviour.
Drugs and the Parasympathetic Nervous System
Natasha Joshi and Jeffrey Handel
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.
Mechanism of General Anaesthetic Action
Shelley Barnes, Jeffrey Handel, and Madeleine Storey
This session describes the ways in which general anaesthetic agents are hypothesized to exert their effects at the cellular and molecular level.
The Cardiovascular System and Sites for Drug Effects
Amy Howard
This session describes the basic anatomy of the cardiovascular system, as well as drugs that primarily affect it and their sites of action.
Target Controlled Infusions
Sue Hill
This session will develop the three compartment model to include an effect-site and discuss its application to target-controlled infusions used for induction and maintenance of anaesthesia. The concept of context-sensitive half-time will be introduced.
Opioids with Weak and Partial Agonist Activity and Opioid Antagonists
Kimberley Hoyland
This session describes the pharmacology and uses of weak opioids such as codeine, as well as partial agonist and mixed agonist/antagonist drugs, and lists the problems associated with their use. It also examines the pharmacology and use of μ receptor antagonists.
Inotropes and Vasoconstrictors
Geoff Lockwood
This session examines the inotropes and vasoconstrictors that are often administered in intensive care units.
Nitrous Oxide and Xenon
Tom Peck
This session covers the storage, production and physicochemical properties of nitrous oxide, N2O. It moves on to examine the Concentration Effect and Second Gas Effect. The physicochemical properties of xenon, Xe, are detailed, along with its similarities and differences to N2O.
Nursing Codes of Ethical Behaviors
Karen A. Landry, Nancy E. Harnett, Adam Burston, Jo Samanta, Helen Baker, Anthony G. Tuckett
3.5 Hours
Healthcare professionals are mandated to protect and uphold all standards of healthcare practice. This course begins by exploring professional position statements in an organization and continues with a pragmatic discussion of the practical considerations a clinician may encounter when dealing with individual, context-specific,....
Handling Large Molecular Waste Containing Guanidine Thiocyanate: Pilot in Uganda & Nigeria
Mr Joel Peter Opio and Dr Ughweroghene Kingston Omo-Emmanuel
LabCoP’s Waste Management Sub CoP ECHO session, held on 18 July 2024, focused on Handling Large Volume Molecular Liquid Waste Containing Guanidine Thiocyanate and pilot studies from Nigeria and Uganda. Given the scale up of viral load (VL) testing and early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV globally over the last decade, there has b....
Lab Mapping journey and final data use: Experience from Malawi and Zimbabwe
Thresa Sumani, and Vincent Kampira
On 13 June, ASLM’s LabCoP hosted an Extended ECHO session about Malawi and Zimbabwe experiences with lab mapping and final data use. ASLM, Africa CDC and partners have been supporting countries in a phased manner to map existing laboratory capacity on the continent. This initiative aims at collecting laboratory data linked to ge....
Cartridge Waste Management in VL Testing: The Mouse in the Room
Edward Krisiunas and Rumbidzai Ndungwani
ASLM’s LabCoP, in conjunction with Cepheid, convened a Waste Management Sub-CoP ECHO session focusing on GeneXpert cartridge waste management at viral load (VL) testing laboratories. GeneXpert is one of the test devices widely used in multi-disease testing, with substantial placement in most laboratory networks in Africa. The su....
Early Adoption of WHO Standard for Universal Rapid TB Diagnostics
Mr David Asiimwe and Dr Omoniyi Amos
On 9 May 2024, ASLM’s LabCoP convened an Extended ECHO session on implementation experiences from early adopters of the World Health Organization Standard on Universal Access to Rapid Tuberculosis Diagnostics, released by WHO in 2023. The standard comprises 12 benchmarks in four steps of the diagnostic cascade, including: identi....
GIS Platforms for AMR, One Health, and Pandemic Preparedness
Stephen Obol Opiyo
In this Antimicrobial Resistance Community of Practice (AMR CoP) webinar, we review the highlights of a groundbreaking study aimed at enhancing global antimicrobial resistance research capabilities, using interactive geographic information system (GIS) dashboards developed to enable comprehensive data analysis of AMR across mult....
Scaling up Primary Care Networks (PCNs): Lessons from Kirinyaga County
Dr Brenda Maingi
This session explores the journey of establishing and scaling up Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in Kirinyaga County, highlighting strategies, challenges, and key lessons learned. It delves into how systems thinking and stakeholder collaboration were employed to strengthen primary healthcare delivery and improve access to quality....
Managing Different Types of Pain
Joanna Elverson
This session describes management strategies for different types of pain seen in end-of-life care. It also discusses the psychosocial, spiritual and functional effects contributing to the personal experience, that need to be recognised and addressed.