Primary FRCA Teaching Day
Category: Training - Primary FRCA Teaching Days
Date: June 6th 2014
Location: Trainee Seminar Room, Theatre complex, Level 1, Great Western Hospital SN3 6BB
8:45 – 9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:00 – 9:15 Introduction: Structure of the day, Syllabus (Sam Andrews)
9:15 – 10:00 Blood flow and glomerular filtration, plasma clearance and tubulo-glomerular feedback (Jill Dale)
10:00 – 10:45 Tubular function and urine formation; transport processes
(Richard Craig)
10:45 – 11:00 COFFEE
11:00 – 11.45 Pathophysiology of Acute Renal Failure, assessment of renal function (TBC)
11:45 – 12:45 LUNCH
12:45 – 13:30 Regulation of water and electrolyte [Na+/K+/Ca++/Mg++/PO4] balance; response to fluid loss/hypovolaemia (TBC)
13:30 – 14:15 Regulation of acid-base balance (Joanne Mullendar)
14:15 - 14:30 COFFEE
14:30 – 15:15 Diuretics: Classification, sites of action, indications and unwanted effects (Sam Andrews)
15:15 – 16:00 MCQ practice and feedback