Australia Permanent Healthcare and Medical Courses

This session provides an overview of peripheral mechanisms of injury-induced and inflammatory pain. It includes a description of the physiology of nociception at the dorsal horn and supraspinal levels.

This session describes the mechanisms by which the pain signal is subject to modulation, from induction to perception.

A guide to the use of controlled ventilation during general anaesthesia in paediatric patients.

This session is a guide to the use of spontaneous ventilation techniques during general anaesthesia in paediatric patients. Relevant respiratory anatomy and physiology in paediatric patients is considered, with particular reference to the potential limita

This session describes the standard management of inhalation induction of anaesthesia in infants and children who are ASA 1 or 2. Children of all ages may need to have anaesthesia induced by the inhalational method. This session also covers definitions, i

How to manage children's perioperative anxiety, and awareness of the link with their psychological development.

This session looks at how to identify and treat paediatric septic shock, including that caused by meningococcal septicaemia.

This session will lead the participant through a scenario from the first presentation to the stabilization of a child with burns.

This session looks at the initial management and stabilization of the multiply injured child with reference to published trauma guidelines.

This session describes the principles of stabilisation and management of a child with a head injury and how this differs from the management of an adult patient. This includes methods of assessment, effects and management of raised intracranial pressure,