Short Courses for Medical Doctors

This session will review the anatomy and physiology of the thyroid gland, with implications for anaesthetizing patients with thyroid disease.

This session describes the main points to remember when reviewing a diabetic patient preoperatively, in order to form a safe, rational plan for perioperative management.

This session reviews the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus and its treatment, focusing on aspects most relevant to anaesthetic management.

Physiology of sleep and how the condition of obstructive sleep apnoea arises. How to identify and manage patients with this condition.

This session gives an overview of COPD and explains the specific implications for anaesthesia of patients with COPD.

Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. This session discusses the effects of hypertension on the heart and its function, the diagnosis of hypertensive heart disease and how it may affect the anaesthetic plan.

This session describes the causes of cardiac arrest in the perioperative period and its treatment, particularly where this varies from standard advanced life support procedures, and when caused by anaphylaxis.

This session outlines the principles of advanced life support for cardiorespiratory arrest in adults, according to the Resuscitation Council (UK) Advanced Life Support Guidelines 2015.

This session covers the pathophysiology of anaphylactic and anaphylactoid reactions, their presentation, intraoperative and subsequent management and the follow-up required.

This session outlines the basic definitions of local and regional anaesthesia (LA and RA), and advises when to use each as a sole technique and when to use in combination with general anaesthesia (GA). It also covers consent issues, minimal safety standar