Causes and Risk Factors for Primary and Secondary Pneumothorax
Ahmed Fahim
0.25 Hours
This session revises the causes and risk factors for primary and secondary pneumothorax.
Diagnosis and Treatment of Hyperventilation Syndrome
David Raeside and Carolyn Bell
0.5 Hours
This session reviews the diagnosis and treatment approaches for patients with chronic hyperventilation syndrome (HVS).
Causes of Dysuria
Chee Kay Cheung
0.25 Hours
This session covers the common causes of dysuria in women and men.
Common Symptoms in Palliative Care 2
Chantal Simon
0.5 Hours
Symptom control is vitally important in palliative care. This session aims to provide an overview of how to manage symptoms of debility and also common respiratory and skin symptoms encountered in the palliative care setting. This session was reviewed by Khyati Bakhai and last updated in November 2014.
Differentiation of Causes of Fever
Nainal Shah and Tom Edwards
1 Hours
This session considers the causes of fever and discusses differentials of fever in adults. It also considers causes of pyrexia of unknown origin.
Physiology of the Neuromuscular Junction (anaesthesia)
John Saddler
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the transmission of an action potential through a motor nerve, the chemical interactions that occur at the neuromuscular junction, and the mechanics of muscle contraction.
Perioperative Analgesia (anaesthesia)
Sue Hill
0.5 Hours
This session provides an introduction to a limited number of analgesic agents used during and after anaesthesia.
Aims of Anaesthesia
Paul Sice
0.5 Hours
This session introduces the concepts of balanced anaesthesia, balanced analgesia and the stress response to surgery.
Autonomic Nervous System Physiology (anaesthesia)
Isabeau Walker
0.5 Hours
This session covers the anatomy of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and the effects of the ANS on different organ systems, including the cardiovascular system, respiratory system and the eye. It examines the major neurotransmitters and receptor types in the ANS. The session concludes with considering the interactions between t....
Common Breathing Sytems (anaesthesia)
Tom Clutton-Brock
0.5 Hours
This session provides an introduction to anaesthetic breathing systems.
Principles of Advanced Life Support
Gavin Perkins (on behalf of the Resuscitation Council (UK)) and Ian Densham
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the principles of advanced life support for cardiorespiratory arrest in adults, according to the Resuscitation Council (UK) Advanced Life Support Guidelines 2015.
Overview of Recovery
Renee Ford
0.5 Hours
This session describes the function of a recovery facility, the most common problems likely to be encountered in post-operative patients, and makes suggestions for the management of these problems.
CEACCP: Management of acute liver failure
Wai Kwan Lai MBChB MRCP Nick Murphy MB BS FRCA DipICM
0.5 Hours
Acute liver failure (ALF) is a devastating syndrome that triggers a cascade of events, leading to multiple organ failure and often death.
Choice of Airway
Dr Gavin Werrett
0.5 Hours
The session outlines when it is appropriate to use an endotracheal tube or a laryngeal mask airway and situations when the decision may not be clear.
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
0.5 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.
Assessing Through Proxies
Clare Phillips and Pat Langstone
0.5 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: Donation after circulatory death
Kathryn Dunne MBChB MRCP FRCA and Pamela Doherty MBChB FRCA DICM
0.5 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....
Relationship between Palliative Care and End of Life Care
Jason Ward
0.5 Hours
This session will describe what is meant by the terms palliative care and end of life care, and what they have in common. Two case studies will be used to explain their relevance to patients with advanced progressive illnesses, and their families. The session will provide an overview of key components of palliative care and end....
Assessment of Psychological Well-being
Erna Haraldsdottir
0.5 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.
Analgesia and the Intensive Care Unit
Siân I. Jaggar
0.5 Hours
This session will describe how pain in the intensive care unit (ICU) is multi-factorial and difficult to assess. It will show how potentially useful drugs may also have adverse effects and how non-pharmacological treatment effects must be maximized. The session will also review effects of pain and describe how analgesia use....
Common viral illnesses in intensive care: presentation, diagnosis, and management
Craig Johnstone MBChB BSc FRCA, Alison Hall BSc MBChB FRCA FFICM MD and Ian J Hart BSc MBChB PhD FR
0.5 Hours
This review does not attempt to be exhaustive but deals with some of the more common viral illnesses that can necessitate ICU admission. Despite this, there remain notable exclusions including arboviruses (including those which cause viral haemorrhagic fever), zoonotic viruses (including rabies), and the hepatitis viruses, which....
CEACCP: Neurogenic pulmonary oedema
Ronan O’Leary FRCA PhD and Justin McKinlay MA(Oxon) BM BCh FRCA
0.5 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.
Pharmacokinetic Pharmacodynamic and Pharmacogenomic Differences Between Adults and Children
Brian Anderson
0.5 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.
CEACCP: Lactate physiology in health and disease
Barrie Phypers FRCA and JM Tom Pierce MRCP FRCA
0.5 Hours
Barrie Phypers and JM Tom Pierce give an in-depth overview of lactate physiology in health and disease
Airway Management in Trauma
Jerry Nolan
0.5 Hours
This session will cover the techniques for managing the airway in the severely-injured patient.