Short Courses for Medical Doctors

This session provides an overview of simple analgesia. It explains the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of paracetamol and aspirin. It will describe mechanisms of action and highlight clinical considerations for safe use of these drugs.

This session examines the local anaesthetics used in clinical practice including their structure, mechanism of action, safe doses and the potential side-effects.

This session will provide an understanding of the properties that make up the ideal intravenous induction agent whilst also listing how the currently available agents meet these ideals. Reference will be made to historical agents where they illustrate imp

This session describes the basic science and clinical applications of ketamine.

This session covers the induction agent etomidate. Etomidate (in clinical use since 1972) has a very stable haemodynamic profile. However, due to the inhibition of adrenocortical steroid synthesis after a single dose or infusion, the popularity of etomida

This session describes the main barbiturate drugs used in anaesthesia: thiopental, methohexital and phenobarbital, including their pharmacology, clinical effects and uses.

This session provides an overview of propofol, including its pharmacological properties, clinical uses and effects.

This session describes the use of benzodiazepines in anaesthesia and intensive care. Other sedative agents are compared with benzodiazepines, particularly those that are available for use in the intensive care setting.

This session describes the ways in which general anaesthetic agents are hypothesized to exert their effects at the cellular and molecular level.

This session covers the storage, production and physicochemical properties of nitrous oxide, N2O. It moves on to examine the Concentration Effect and Second Gas Effect. The physicochemical properties of xenon, Xe, are detailed, along with its s