Australia Permanent Healthcare and Medical Courses

This session addresses the advanced management of the critically ill child and the child in cardiac arrest.

This session looks at practical opioid pharmacology applied to the clinical use of different agents for neonates, infants and small children.

This session will provide an overview of pharmacokinetic (PK) maturation during infancy and the use of size models to describe PK differences between children and adults. It will go on to describe known pharmacodynamic (PD) differences and consider the im

This session covers acute illnesses which can present with syncope.

This session looks at the diagnosis and management of an accidental hypothermic patient presenting either with or without cardio respiratory arrest, and common complications. The initial rescue and recovery is not covered in this session.

This session considers the basic biochemistry underlying metabolic acidosis, respiratory compensation and the causes of both raised and normal anion gap metabolic acidoses.

A brief overview of strong ion theory, particularly relating to metabolic acidosis.

This session discusses the causes of acute spinal cord compression.

This session covers the clinical presentation, investigation and management of spinal cord compression.

This session discusses the clinical findings associated with spinal cord compression.