Australia Permanent Healthcare and Medical Courses

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,

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.

The role of the anaesthetist in caring for children who are known or suspected to be victims of abuse; explaining local child protection procedures with reference to the joint RCPCH/RCoA/APA guideline ‘Child Protection And The Anaesthetist: Safegua

This session explains the key components relevant to the anaesthetist in the perioperative management of a child undergoing urgent appendicectomy and laparotomy.

This session describes postoperative fluid management in children and the clinical response to specific conditions which may arise.