This session describes the principles of opioid therapy in particular dose titration and analgesic failure. It discusses how to control some of the adverse effects of opioid therapies.

This session will provide a rationale for the prescription of analgesia for patients with moderate acute pain.

This module will enable you to use patient controlled analgesia (PCA) techniques according to patient need and to manage common problems and side-effects.

This session looks at the action of opioids given by epidural and intrathecal routes and considers the key adverse effects; it will enable you to execute a management strategy for these adverse effects.

This session describes the optimization of pain control through the rational combination of drug and non-drug modalities.

This session examines how and why acute pain services came into existence by exploring antecedents and important landmarks. It also looks at their organization and explains how this helps to support its objectives. Challenges that the services face now an

This session aims to raise awareness regarding the factors that predispose women to mental ill health in the perinatal period, and the role of health ...

This session will describe some of the basic respiratory investigations, and explain the relevance of the results obtained.

This session explains how to record an ECG, the structure of the ECG and how to interpret the results. It further explains the use of the ECG in clinical practice.

This session follows on from ECG I and presents the ECG as an electrical map of the heart. It details the abnormalities expected with myocardial infarction and left ventricular hypertrophy.