Australia Permanent Healthcare and Medical Courses

This session deals with management of poisonings, initially reviewing acute poisonings as a whole and general measures in managing them, before looking at some important examples of poisonings and their specific management.

This session describes the underlying conditions predisposing to the development of atrial flutter and outlines how the cardiac re-entrant arrhythmia can lead to the typical 12 lead ECG, the underlying arrhythmia circuit.

This session covers the investigation and management of a patient presenting with dysuria.

This session covers the common causes of dysuria in women and men.

This session describes the causes and metabolic complications of chronic kidney disease.

This session outlines some key definitions in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic kidney disease.

This session discusses the potential causes of nocturia.

This session looks at the causes of chest pain in pregnant women. It covers how to differentiate and investigate the pain as well as how to treat the causes, concentrating predominantly on thromboembolism, ischaemic heart disease and dissection.

This session covers the use of anticoagulants in pregnancy, with specific reference to the acute management of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in pregnancy. The safety issues for the mother and fetus of unfractionated heparin (UH), low molecular weight hepar

A brief overview on identifying those patients at risk of refeeding syndrome, with reference to NICE guidelines.