EM Essential Training Day
Category: Training - Emergency Medicine Teaching Days
Date: April 12th 2016
Location: Great Western Hospital, Swindon
Medicine 2
Timings and order are notional
Register your place below.
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9.00-9.45 Arthritis |
Monoarthritis -differential diagnosis, investigation and treatment Emergency complications of common arthropathies |
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9.45-10.30 Rheumatology |
Arteritis/Vasculitis Lupus |
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Coffee Break 10.30-10.45 |
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10.45-11.15 Elderly falls |
Complications of ‘a long lie’ Investigation of falls and prevention |
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11.15-12.00 Polypharmacy |
Unforeseen interactions Common issues |
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12.00-12.30 Fragility fractures |
Common sites Detection and prevention fragility fractures |
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Lunch 12.30-13.15 |
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13.15-13.45 Practical session (split group into 2) |
Xrays in elderly care (fragility fractures, pathological lesions, arthritis, Paget’s) |
Joint aspiration (focus on knee) |
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13.45-14.15 Practical session (split group into 2) |
Joint aspiration (focus on knee) |
Xrays in elderly care (fragility fractures, pathological lesions, arthritis, Paget’s) |
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Coffee Break 14.15-14.30 |
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14.30-15.00 Life threatening rashes |
Necrotising fasciitis, pemphigus vulgaris , Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis, toxic shock syndrome, and staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome. |
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15.00-15.30 Common rashes |
Measles, chicken pox, rubella Impetigo, herpes |
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15.30-16.00 Skin lesions |
BCC, SCC, melanoma Lyme’s, Typhus, leishmaniasis, orf |
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ACCS Curriculum - Acute presentations – falls, rash, atraumatic limb pain/swelling
- Practical procedures – knee aspiration