Australia Delivery Healthcare and Medical Courses

This session examines how acute illness in the elderly may disguise other medical problems and considers the implications of this for presentation and examination. The causes and consequences of immobility in the elderly are also considered.

This session looks at the definition and causes of non-exposure hypothermia in older people, how to treat it and how to prevent it.

This session focuses on how to recognise the common clinical features caused by hypothermia and the resulting ECG findings.

This session reviews the possible presentations of drug-induced cough and its causes.

This session explains the mechanisms associated with haemoptysis in bronchiectasis.

This session describes bronchiectasis and its causes.

This session reviews the causes of haematemesis and melaena. It covers the principles of resuscitation and risk stratification. It also discusses the management (both pharmacological and endoscopic) of patients who present with upper gastrointestinal blee

This session reviews Duke criteria and exceptions.

This session revises the basic physiology of water and sodium regulation, and demonstrates a structured approach to the assessment and management of patients with hyponatraemia.

This session lists the drugs that can commonly cause hyponatraemia. It also gives sources of further information if less common drug causes are suspected.