Wounds and Soft Tissue Injuries Compartment Syndrome
Gemma Green
0.50 Hours
This session will review the assessment of soft tissue injuries, including wound/skin loss. It will define compartment syndrome and identify its causes, pathophysiology, diagnosis and surgical management.
Self-Harm (Paramedics)
David Partlow
0.50 Hours
This session aims to provide background information regarding the incidence of self-harm, the why, who and how of self-harm and information to support prevention activities.
Ways of Supporting Pain Self-management Strategies
Bharati Vyawahare and Ruth Whiteman
0.50 Hours
This session describes Pain Management Programmes and how modified pain management interventions can be used effectively as an early intervention.
The Principles of Planning Reconstructive Surgery
Ciara Harris and Chris Hill
0.75 Hours
This session will provide a detailed account of how a plastic surgeon weighs up the surgical techniques that are available and makes a decision about the most appropriate choice.
Surgical Repair of Ischial Pressure Sores
Mohsin Choudry, Yazan Al-Ajam and Haroon Siddiqui
0.50 Hours
This session will describe the flaps that can be used to cover ischial pressure sores and outline the advantages and disadvantages associated with the use of each flap.
Statistics: Random Processes
Steven Cruickshank
0.50 Hours
This session introduces some fundamental ideas in the approach to random phenomena and some important concepts in probability and statistics through a clinical example.
Statistics: Related Variables
Anthony McCluskey
0.50 Hours
This session looks at ways of assessing relationships between two variables using scatterplots and by determining the mathematical relationship between two correlated variables. The use of Bland-Altman plots to compare two different methods of measurement is also considered.
Viral Exanthems
Tauseef Mehrali
0.50 Hours
A case-based approach to the recognition and management of the common viral exanthems of childhood.
Treatment Planning and Delivery for Active Pencil Beam Scanning
Adam Aitkenhead
0.50 Hours
This session outlines the key factors in planning and delivering a conformal and robust actively scanned proton pencil beam treatment. It highlights the differences between the common proton beam therapy (PBT) treatment techniques, and gives an overview of the practical issues that must be taken into account during treatment pla....
Spine Part 2: Sacrum, Sacral Hiatus and Ligaments
Manu Shankar Hari, Heike Romer and Jackie Potter
0.50 Hours
This session covers the anatomy of the sacrum, coccyx and sacral hiatus. It describes the intervertebral discs and spinal ligaments, and the vertebral levels of some of the surface markings of the body. The different types of spina bifida are reviewed.
Surface Anatomy of Vertebral Column in Adult and Child
Jan Cernovsky
This session will describe the surface anatomy of the vertebral column. This includes an investigation of the spinal regions and a section on how to identify the level of the various vertebrae.
Ventilatory Failure and Oxygen Therapy
Marelize Van Gruenen
0.50 Hours
This session covers the physiology and causes of the different types of ventilatory/respiratory failure. The effect of ventilatory failure on blood gases, treatment options, oxygen therapy and oxygen toxicity will also be discussed.
The Physiology of Hormones
Simon Fletcher
0.50 Hours
This session gives a broad overview of the hormone/endocrine system, including the key systems. It covers types of hormones, modes of action and a brief description of the assessment of hormonal function.
Starting and Using Barrier Contraceptives
Fiona Anderson
0.50 Hours
This session explores the choice of barrier contraception methods available and the risks and benefits associated with each method. It also describes information and counselling, management and follow up in relation to barrier contraception use.
The anaesthetic management of facial trauma and fractures
Nicholas J Chesshire and David J W Knight
0.50 Hours
In the field of maxillofacial trauma, the anaesthetist may be called upon to provide help in the treatment of the acutely injured patient on arrival to the accident and emergency department or in the semi-elective repair of fractures sustained previously. This article provides advice on the best approaches to dealing with these....
Surface Anatomy of the Neck and Clavicular Region
David Ashton-Cleary
0.50 Hours
This session is designed to help you gain a better understanding of surface anatomy relevant to everyday anaesthetic procedures such as central venous access and brachial plexus blockade.
Types of Tracheostomy Tube
Anne Whaley
0.50 Hours
This session will enable you to recognize the available tracheostomy tubes and choose the appropriate tracheostomy tube for a given setting.
Standards of Monitoring During Anaesthesia and Recovery
Baha Al-Shaikh
0.50 Hours
It is essential, for the safe administration of anaesthesia, that certain core standards of monitoring are used whenever a patient is anaesthetized. These standards should be uniform irrespective of duration or location of anaesthesia. This session provides an overview of the principles of the standards used to monitor patients....
Visualizing the Patient Experience Using an Agile Framework
Chris Mitchell
0.75 Hours
As the US healthcare market has shifted from a fee-for-service to a pay-for-performance reimbursement model, patient experience survey ratings are under more scrutiny than ever. Performance is not only positively correlated to financial performance and health outcomes - it can also shape perceptions that drive customer loyalty.....
Why Am I Taking This Drug? Incorporating Indications in CPOE
Gordon Schiff, MD and Pamela M Neri Garabedian, MS
1.00 Hours
Currently, medication orders lack information about the drug indication (the reason for taking the drug). Integrating indications could pave the way for a safer, more complete continuum of care for the patient and save time during prescribing and related tasks (e.g. medication reconciliation). Indications-based prescribing has t....
Social-Health Data Exchange Facilitates Chronic Disease Care
Yolande Pengetnze, MD, MSc and Teresa Jackson
1.00 Hours
The “Data Across Sectors for Health” (DASH) project deployed a technology platform between a hospital system and food pantries to facilitate improved care for food-insecure people with diabetes or hypertension. The social/health information exchange (S-HIE) enables inter-sectoral coordination/data sharing between hospital-based....
Turning Clinical Data Into Effective Action: A Case Study
Tim Putnam and Karin Abraham
1.00 Hours
This session will describe how a Critical Access Hospital in Batesville, Indiana is transitioning from guessing to wisdom through data from analytics and population health software. The session will present a case study based on the experience of Margaret Mary Health and describe how the facility finding success and participatin....
Privacy and Confidentiality
Ms Deb Shearman
0.50 Hours
Overview; People’s right to privacy and confidentiality; Strategies and responsibilities to respect privacy and confidentiality; Managing personal information; Responsibilities under the Australian Privacy Law regarding the Notifiable Data Breach (NDB) Scheme
