Short Courses for Medical Doctors

This session introduces the common groups of diuretic medications, their mechanisms of action and their common side-effects.

This session describes the antibiotic drugs used most commonly in anaesthesia and critical care.

This session describes the pharmacology and clinical indications for the use of antiviral and antifungal drugs in critical care.

This session will classify antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) according to their mechanism of action and discuss their uses and interactions.

This session describes the drugs commonly used in the treatment of mood disorders and psychosis, their mechanism of action and important adverse effects.

The session covers the main classes of drugs used to treat both non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, as well as the use of insulin and the different formulations of insulin.

This session describes corticosteroids and their role in health, as well as the use of extrinsic corticosteroids in disease states, the complications associated with this use relevant to the anaesthetist, thyroid hormone production, and treatment of thyro

This session reviews the effects of anaesthetic drugs and common ophthalmic drugs on the eye, focusing on intraocular pressure.

This session looks at how the acute and chronic effects of alcohol affect the day-to-day work of the anaesthetist.

This session looks at the legislation surrounding illicit drugs, their pharmacology and some of the anaesthetic issues raised by their acute and chronic abuse.