Australia Permanent Healthcare and Medical Courses

This session revises the causes and risk factors for primary and secondary pneumothorax.

This session revises the causes and risk factors for primary and secondary pneumothorax.

This session discusses the management of a pulmonary embolism in special circumstances including pregnancy, anaemia, thrombophilia and malignancy.

Explanation of the origins and utilisation of the modified Wells score for pulmonary embolism in practice.

This session highlights the wide range of clinical features that pulmonary embolus (PE) may precipitate in patients.

This session provides an overview of the initial investigation and management of pleural effusions in adults.

This session will revise the current classification of Interstitial Lung Disease and review the approach to diagnosis and management of this group of diseases.

This session looks at interstitial lung disease (ILD), with an emphasis on those types that can present acutely. It identifies treatments with some evidence of benefit.

Having established a history, examination, and chest x-ray (CXR) that suggest a possibility of interstitial lung disease (ILD) as a diagnosis, this session will identify subsequent appropriate investigations to establish a more precise diagnosis.

This session outlines a variety of ways in which interstitial lung disease (ILD) may present on the acute medical take.