Short Courses for Medical Doctors

Acute asthma is a common emergency condition affecting all age groups. Early recognition and management can save lives.

This session describes the assessment of shock from simple bedside evaluation through to invasive cardiac output monitoring.

This session looks at the issues around elderly patients being considered for critical care, including frailty, multimorbidity, polypharmacy, delirium and shared decision-making; what makes a difference to outcomes and setting realistic expectations with

This session addresses the management of pain in older patients. Pain assessment can be challenging in the elderly. Increasing age affects the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of our therapeutic options, and an increasing burden of comorbidities can

This session describes delirium, prevention strategies, diagnosis and management. Particular focus lies upon the role of anaesthesia and surgery in delirium.

This session describes the common cardiovascular changes that occur in the elderly and their implications on anaesthetic management.

This session provides a brief overview of common comorbidities that you will frequently encounter in perioperative clinic

This session looks at perioperative strategies to manage dementia.

This session provides an overview of prehabilitation, its uses, what it entails and the conferred benefit to the patient and the NHS. This session also reflects on the older surgical patient, as prehabilitation is particularly pertinent to this age group

This session describes the physician's role in perioperative management of older patients undergoing surgery.