0.50 Hours
Anthony McCluskey and Abdul Ghaaliq Lalkhen provide us with an in-depth discussion on clinical trials and systematic reviews
0.50 Hours
This session is an outline of the general principles of consent and focuses on the types of consent to treatment. It examines what happens before the age of consent and what can be done when consent is refused. It also looks at consent in the case of people with learning difficulties, living wills and organ donation.
0.50 Hours
This session describes clinical scenarios involving patients with complex medical and ethical problems relating to consent, which clinicians will find challenging.
0.50 Hours
Carers experience health, social and financial problems as a result of their role. They are more likely to have seen their GP recently than any other support professional, and so it is vital for GPs within primary care teams to know how to identify and support carers in order to maintain the health of the carer, and to preserve....
This session will explain how to recognise and manage the life-threatening complications of acute kidney injury, and how to explain the process of emergency dialysis to a patient with acute kidney injury.
This session will explain how to make the diagnosis of acute kidney injury, and how to determine whether it is caused by pre-renal failure/acute tubular necrosis, a renal inflammatory condition, or urinary obstruction.
0.50 Hours
This session outlines how acute and late toxicities may differ between proton and photon radiotherapy, and the potential for proton beam therapy (PBT) to reduce some late radiation related side effects. It explains the rationale for clearly defined patient follow-up schedules with careful collection of tumour and toxicity outcom....
0.50 Hours
This session describes the principles of radiation protection relating to the delivery of proton beam therapy (PBT). It highlights the key differences between PBT and photon radiotherapy from a radiation protection perspective and gives an overview of practical considerations required for a clinical PBT centre.
0.25 Hours
The session describes the major characteristics of proton beams, how they differ from photon beams, and their potential clinical consequences.
0.50 Hours
This session will explore the psychosocial assessment of dermatology patients and provide tools to aid assessment. The session aims to build confidence and desire to assess for the presence of psychosocial distress in patients presenting with skin conditions.
0.50 Hours
By the end of this session you will be able to describe the role of some primary care psychological interventions that may be of use for dermatology patients.
This session will highlight the clinical presentation and management options of actinic keratosis and Bowen's disease.
0.50 Hours
This session provides an overview of the fundamental principles of the management of moderate and severe traumatic brain injury, concentrating on the hours immediately post-injury. After discussing classification of head injury the session covers assessment, resuscitation, radiology and referral, and the essentials of ongoing....
0.50 Hours
The majority of spinal cord injuries (SCI), involving previously healthy young adults, result from trauma; 37% occur after road accidents, 42% follow falls, 11% are associated with sports and recreational activities, and 3% after assault.
0.50 Hours
This session describes the abdominal trauma seen in clinical practice the imaging appearances of different organ injury.
0.50 Hours
Smoke inhalation injury can be defined as damage caused by breathing in harmful gases, vapours, and particulate matter contained in smoke. It can manifest as a thermal injury, chemical injury, and as systemic toxicity, or any combination of these.
0.50 Hours
The thorax is comprised of the structures of the mediastinum and lungs; mediastinal structures are linked to the lungs through the hila. This session introduces you to the normal computed tomography (CT) appearance of these structures.
0.50 Hours
Amit Srivastava and Andrea Kelleher give an in-depth overview of point-of-care coagulation testing
0.50 Hours
This session aims to provide a rationale behind cardiac output monitoring and a sound understanding of the physiological principles behind the available technology.
0.50 Hours
This session will cover the basic principles underlying oesophageal Doppler cardiac output monitoring, the practicalities of use of the monitor and clinical applications.
0.50 Hours
This session will explore the link between burns and epilepsy and describe the investigations required for burn patients with uncontrolled epilepsy. Later, it will describe how patients with epilepsy can reduce the risk of future accidental burns.
0.25 Hours
This session is designed to introduce the user to the common causes of breast pain.
This session covers essential information on chronic limb ischaemia required to pass the MRCS examination. It also provides the essential knowledge and skills required for Foundation and Core surgical trainees in their day-to-day practice.
0.50 Hours
This session describes the presentation, aetiology and management of acute limb ischaemia.
0.75 Hours
This session covers essential information on varicose veins required to pass the MRCS examination. It also provides the essential knowledge and skills required for Core trainees in their day-to-day practice.