Community MIYCAN Training Course
Jjemba Vicent Michael, Dr. Joel Tenywa, and Ms. Elizabeth Kiconco
Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) course focuses on Maximizing Impacts on Child Growth and Micronutrient Status by Focusing on Maternal Nutrition, Delivery Practices, and Improved Infant and Young Child Feeding.
Logistics and Supply Chain in Pandemic Situations
Mr Kondwani Shaba
Pandemics are large-scale outbreaks of infectious disease that can greatly increase morbidity and mortality over a wide geographic area and cause significant economic, social, and political disruption. Evidence suggests that the likelihood of pandemics has increased over the past century because of increased global travel and in....
Non-Depolarising Muscle Relaxants: General Properties
Elizabeth Flockton and Chris Parker
This session introduces the action of non-depolarising muscle relaxants.
Acute Abdomen: Intraoperative Management
Matthew Thomas
Patients undergoing emergency laparotomy can be very unwell. They are frequently septic, with severe dehydration and deranged electrolytes. They are also commonly in severe pain. Prompt resuscitation followed by careful anaesthesia and postoperative care gives these patients their best chance of survival and meaningful recove....
Pharmacokinetics: Elimination
Nidhi Gautam
This session discusses the pharmacokinetic process of elimination, which includes excretion and metabolism (biotransformation). It also discusses the kinetics of elimination and pathways of biotransformation, including the factors influencing it.
Emergency Medicine Leaders
Dr Jo Hartley, Dr Hannah Baird, Mr Mal Jones, Dr Lara Somerset, Dr Taj Hassan, Squadron Leader Jonathon Lowe, Aanika Khan, Dr Elizabeth Saunders, Dr Nicholas Adams, Dr Nick Blundell, Dr Muniswamy Hemavathi
The programme is an online learning resource designed to meet the needs of trainee doctors in Emergency Medicine. It will also be a vital component of CPD activity for consultants and FASSGEM doctors for purposes of revalidation. It has been developed by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) in partnership with Healt....
The Neuromuscular Junction and the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
Sue Hill
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.
Clinical Use of Antiarrhythmic Agents
Alexander Photiou
This sessions describes the use of antiarrhythmic agents most commonly used in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. It covers the pharmacology, clinical indications, contraindications and side-effects of such agents.
Reversal of Neuromuscular Blockade
Elizabeth Flockton and Chris Parker
This session reviews both the assessment of residual neuromuscular block and the mechanism of action of the chemical agents that antagonise it.
Aminosteroid Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
RG Craig and CJ Parker
This session explores the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of the aminosteroid neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs). It explores: the relationship between the chemical structure of these agents, their potency and their route of elimination; the relationship between potency and rate of onset; the use of neuromuscul....
The Ideal Short-acting Muscle Relaxant
Elizabeth Flockton and Chris Parker
This session identifies those properties of a neuromuscular blocking agent that would make it an ideal short-acting muscle relaxant. The properties of currently available agents will be compared with those of the ideal agent using relevant clinical scenarios.
Ethical Issues
Carol Taylor, Jo Samanta, Marion E. Broome, Mary Cipriano Silva, Anthony G. Tuckett, Barbara E. Berger, Norma Rolfsen
3.75 Hours
Although initially an area associated with a distinct disciplinary study, such as philosophy, the subject of ethics is increasingly becoming everybody’s business. Increasing life expectancy with existent co-morbidities renders end-of-life care for older people much more complex and challenging. Within this, and many other contex....
Practical Ethics in the Healthcare Setting
Judith L. Hold, Naoko Arimori
2.75 Hours
This course will address common barriers encountered in professional ethical practice. These barriers to resolving ethical dilemmas are categorized as to how they relate to nursing, interprofessional collaboration, patient/provider relationships and organizational structure. Two ethical decision models on how to resolve clinical....
Professional Ethics
Cynda Rushton, Marcia Van Riper
2.75 Hours
Nurses in all roles and settings are responsible and accountable for upholding the professional values of the profession. Individual integrity is the starting point for professional integrity. When integrity is threatened moral distress can ensue. In this course, moral distress will be defined, and its prevalence, sources and co....
Surveillance of Histidine-rich Protein Genes Deletion in Plasmodium Falciparum
Dr Xavier Ding, Mr Bokretsion Gidey and Dr Bosco Agaba
On 11 April 2024, ASLM’s LabCoP convened an Extended ECHO session focussing on surveillance of histidine-rich protein genes deletion in plasmodium falciparum (pfhrp2/3). Globally, malaria remains a pressing health concern, with an estimated 249 million cases and 608,000 deaths reported in 2022 alone. Africa bears a disproportion....
Diagnostics for Drug-Resistant TB: Verification in Uganda, Implementation in Mozambique
Dipti Lallubhai, Dr Willy Ssengooba, and Dr Claudia Cardoso Mutaquiha
On 4 July, ASLM’s LabCoP hosted an Extended ECHO session about improving diagnostics for drug-resistant tuberculosis. Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) remains a significant public health concern, given the increasing resistance to the effective foundation drugs, including Rifampicin and Isoniazid. In this session, we focus on....
The Revised WHO-AFRO SLIPTA Checklist, Changes and the Transition Roadmap
Mr Teferi Mekonen and Dr Samba Diallo
On 20 June 2024, ASLM’s LabCoP hosted an Extended ECHO session that focused on the revised WHO-AFRO SLIPTA Checklist. The session presentation was made by Mr Teferi Mekonen and Dr Samba Diallo of ASLM and highlighted key changes to, and the transition roadmap for the WHO-AFRO SLIPTA checklist version 3. The session also covered....
Assessment and Management of Agitation and Delirium
Annabel Price
This session provides a framework for recognising and managing agitation in patients with advanced illness. It was reviewed by Felicity Wood and Sarah Hanrott and last updated in May 2023.
Assessment of Breathlessness
Tim Peel
This session gives a framework of how to assess breathlessness as an essential first step to appropriate management in the patient approaching the end of life.
Management of Depression
Annabel Price and Max Henderson
This session provides a framework for an integrated management of depression.
Causes of Nausea and Vomiting
Saskie Dorman
This session describes the physiological processes underlying nausea and vomiting and offers a framework for working out the causes of nausea and vomiting, as a basis for assessment and management of these problems. It focuses on patients with advanced disease but is not a comprehensive view of the causes of nausea and vomiting....
Recognising Your Own Limitations in Symptom Management
Sarah Wilcox
This session discusses how being aware of your own skills and limitations can improve symptom management and care for patients at the end of life.
Healthcare Ethics Certificate Program
Francis Ward, Kim Mooney-Doyle, Debra Lynn Bastien, Fiona Timmins, Vivian Norman, Amy M. Haddad, Ifeanyi Madujibeya, Teresa Villaran, Carol Taylor, Marion E. Broome, Mary Cipriano Silva, Barbara E. Berger, Norma Rolfsen, Valerie Swigart, Dougl
This program examines key ethical issues, terms, concepts, and ideas that can become aneveryday part of nursing practice. Reflective and guided exercises focused on personalphilosophy, values, and working through ethical issues to help clarify when an ethical dilemmaexists, what ethical issues are involved, and how an ethical po....
Module 3: Advocacy for Pediatrics in a Disaster
Wentiirim Annankra, and Samuel Borer
This module provides an understanding of the importance of advocacy in disasters and goes through some strategies to advocate for children impacted by disasters with key stakeholders and decision makers.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Rachel Maina
We welcome you to this course on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). In this course you will be introduced to a treatment approach that aims to improve self-efficacy, self-awareness, self-regulation and stress coping skills to treat persons with mental disorders. We hope that at the end of this course you will have an extra se....