Antepartum Haemorrhage
Aimee Yarrington
0.50 Hours
The aim of this session is to provide an understanding of the clinician’s role in dealing with the bleeding, pregnant patient who is more than 24 weeks into pregnancy.
Poisons and Toxidromes
Tom Mallinson
This session will identify the most common causes of paediatric poisoning. Later, it will explore the physiological changes associated with dangerous levels of toxins in the body and investigate the antidotes that can be used to augment treatment following paediatric poisoning.
Pathophysiology of Blood Loss
Syed A Hyder and Ridzuan Farouk
0.50 Hours
This session defines shock and its common causes. It then focuses on hypovolaemic shock and its aetiology. Haemorrhagic shock classification based upon severity and how resuscitation should be managed are subsequently outlined.
Reconstruction of Isolated Defects of the Nose
Eleonora Dimovska and Jonathan Clibbon
0.50 Hours
This session will describe the procedures that can be used to reconstruct isolated defects of the nose and offer guidance on how to avoid, recognise and treat the complications associated with each procedure.
Pierre Robin Sequence
Muhammad Asim Bashir
0.50 Hours
This session will describe the anatomical anomalies associated with Pierre Robin sequence and offer guidance on the non-surgical and surgical management of patients with this condition.
Anatomy of the Breast
Malik Fleet and Ash Mosahebi
0.50 Hours
This session will describe the macroscopic and microscopic anatomy of the breast (including blood and nerve supply) and the lymphatic drainage of the breast.
Breast Surgery in Female-to-Male Gender Reaffirmation
Neil Wickham and Catherine Milroy
0.50 Hours
This session will describe the techniques used for chest reconstruction in female-to-male gender reaffirmation and the advantages and disadvantages of each technique. Later sections will explore the range of complications associated with such procedures.
Acute Compartment Syndrome in the Lower Limb
Mai Rostom
0.50 Hours
This session will describe how to recognise acute compartment syndrome in the lower limb. Later sections will offer guidance on how to perform a fasciotomy and manage the complications associated with compartment syndrome.
Assessment of Psychological Well-being
Erna Haraldsdottir
0.50 Hours
Psychological assessment is one of the four core areas (also known as domains) of a holistic assessment. In this session you will explore this domain and its potential interactions with the other areas. This session was reviewed by Carolyn Doyle and Christina Faull and last updated in November 2015.
Assessing Through Proxies
Clare Phillips and Pat Langstone
0.50 Hours
This session will introduce issues related to assessing people's end of life care needs through a proxy when the individual is not able to communicate directly with the person carrying out the assessment.
CEACCP: Physiological changes after brain stem death and management of the heart-beating donor
Joanna Kay Gordon FRCA and Justin McKinlay MA(Oxon) FRCA FFICM
0.50 Hours
Organ donation after neurological death represents the only source of thoracic organs suitable for transplantation. It is, therefore, increasingly important to actively manage brain-dead donors.
CEACCP: Donation after circulatory death
Kathryn Dunne MBChB MRCP FRCA and Pamela Doherty MBChB FRCA DICM
0.50 Hours
With the advent of organ transplantation, patients suffering from end-stage organ failure no longer face inevitable death or a lifetime of complex medical care and those receiving a transplanted organ can often return to a normal lifestyle. As a result of this success, coupled with an ageing population, there are increasing numb....
Pulmonary Hypertension: Part 1
Deepa Gopalan and Nicholas Screaton
This session will discuss all aspects of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) that are relevant from a radiological viewpoint including definition, classification, clinical manifestation, diagnostic methodology, and generic signs of pulmonary hypertension (PHT). The second session in this series of two (see Resources) will eluc....
Adrenal Disease and Steroid Replacement Therapy
Mark Heining
This session will review the applied physiology and pharmacology of the adrenal gland, with the implications for anaesthetizing patients for adrenalectomy.
CEACCP: Neurogenic pulmonary oedema
Ronan O’Leary FRCA PhD and Justin McKinlay MA(Oxon) BM BCh FRCA
0.50 Hours
Pulmonary oedema is the accumulation of fluid within the interstitium and air spaces of the lung. It may form due to intrinsic lung pathology or systemic dysfunction.
CEACCP: Cardiovascular complications of brain
Tamsin Gregory MBBS MRCP FRCA and Mar tin Smith MBBS FRCA FFICM
0.50 Hours
Cardiovascular complications are common after brain injury and associated with increased morbidity and mortality.1,2 The spectrum of abnormalities includes hypertension, hypotension, ECG changes, cardiac arrhythmias, release of biomarkers of cardiac injury, and left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. The abnormalities are usually rev....
Pharmacokinetic Pharmacodynamic and Pharmacogenomic Differences Between Adults and Children
Brian Anderson
0.50 Hours
This session will provide an overview of pharmacokinetic (PK) maturation during infancy and the use of size models to describe PK differences between children and adults. It will go on to describe known pharmacodynamic (PD) differences and consider the impact of pharmacogenomic (PG) differences in infancy.
Postoperative Respiratory Failure
Mark Griffiths
0.50 Hours
The pathogenesis of risk factors for and management of postoperative respiratory failure are discussed. Preoperative assessment is highlighted as well as the management of respiratory function in particular types of high-risk surgery.
Postoperative care on the Cardiac ICU
Clare Quarterman, Ben Murray and David Mayhew
This session describes the routine management of the cardiac surgical patient in the cardiac ICU, as well as some of the complications that may arise following cardiac surgery, their recognition and immediate management.
Conducting System of the Heart
Craig Bailey
0.50 Hours
In this session you will learn about the conducting system of the heart, including its association with contraction of the heart chambers, electrocardiogram (ECG) trace and associated arrhythmias.
Boney Orbit and Extraocular Contents
Andy Presland
0.50 Hours
Applied anatomy of the orbit and its extraocular contents.
Bones And Joints of The Upper and Lower Limbs
Heike Romer
0.50 Hours
This session describes the anatomy of the upper and lower limbs, concentrating on the bones and joints. Particular attention is paid to those bones and joints that are of importance to the anaesthetist.
Antecubital Fossa
Mansoor Sange and Peter J H Venn
0.50 Hours
This session describes the surface anatomy, boundaries and superficial/deep structures in the antecubital fossa. It describes the variations in venous and arterial vasculature in the region and clinical importance to the anaesthetist of this fossa.
Cellular Metabolism, Enzymes
Anthony Turley
0.50 Hours
This session describes the structure, function and mechanism of action of enzymes. Their role in regulation and cellular physiology is identified.