Australia Job Type Healthcare and Medical Courses

This session will describe how the diagnosis of nociceptive pain can be made from the patient’s history, a physical examination and other relevant investigations. The deleterious effects of unmanaged nociceptive pain will also be covered.

This session describes the role of venous oxygen saturations when assessing the adequacy of tissue oxygenation in critically-ill patients, interpretation of the values in different clinical scenarios and how these values affect the choice of a management

This session will explain the physiology behind central venous pressure monitoring, the techniques available to measure it and how to use the results to guide therapy at the bedside.

This third and final session about the ECG discusses cardiac conduction and arrhythmias.

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.

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

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

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.