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Abdominal Trauma

This session will give you a plan for the initial assessment and management of abdominal trauma.

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Triage in Mass Casualty Situations

This session covers the importance of, and methods of performing triage in mass casualty situations.

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Intracranial Infections

Intracranial infections (also called central nervous system infections or CNS infections) are relatively rare, but form a very important differential diagnosis in the unwell patient

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Psychiatric Emergencies for the Adult Patient

Patients with mental health problems often present to the Emergency Department (ED). They will commonly be assessed and then treated, initially, by junior doctors.

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Anaphylaxis-induced Cardiac Arrest

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Alcoholic Liver Disease

This session will deal with the assessment and management of alcoholic liver disease.

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Helicopter Safety and Familiarisation

This session covers aspects of helicopter safety, in particular the dangers associated with working with rotary-winged aircraft.

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Soft Tissue and Skin Injury Descriptions in the Emergency Department

This teaching session aims to provide the learner with an overview of common types of skin and soft tissue injuries, how best to accurately describe these, and considers the mechanism most likely to be responsible.

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Adult Cystic Fibrosis

Describing the pathophysiology of cystic fibrosis

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Bleeding in Pregnancy

This session covers the emergency management of both bleeding in early pregnancy and antepartum haemorrhage (APH) Appropriate investigation and initial emergency interventions are considered including rhesus status and the administration of anti-D immunioglobulin.

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Anaphylaxis

This session covers the assessment, treatment and management of patients presenting to an emergency department with anaphylaxis

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Safe Sedation Procedures in Adults

This session focuses on the knowledge, skills, facilities and equipment required to perform safe emergency department procedural sedation. Commonly used sedation agents and some of their qualities are described

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Thyroid Storm

Thyroid storm is a rare but life-threatening endocrine condition that should be considered, recognised and treated quickly

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Acute Alcohol Withdrawal

Alcohol withdrawal is a common presentation to UK EDs and patients can present significant management challenges to clinicians.

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The Mental Health Act and Emergency Medicine

Approximately 10% of all admissions to the Emergency Department (ED) are related to patients having a mental health crisis. With the ever increasing numbers of patients requiring mental health input, it is important that we understand the law that underpins our treatment (RCEM, 2018)