Ill Medical Patients, Acute Care and Treatment (IMPACT) - 14 Nov 2012

Venue:  Academic Centre, The James Cook University Hospital, Marton Road, Middlesbrough, TS4 3BW

Registration Fee:  £300 per delegate including all course materials, lunch and refreshements

 

Course programme - day one

08.30   Registration and Coffee

09.00   Welcome and introduction

09.15   Initial assessment of the critically ill medical patient

10.00   Demonstration of assessment scheme

10.15   Mid morning coffee

10.30   Interactive tutorials - the breathless patient

11.00   Interactive tutorials - shock

11.45   Workshops (Oxygen, ECG, ABG's and CXR)

12.45   Lunch

13.45   Workshops continued

14.45   Lecture - acute coronary syndrome and acute kidney injury

15.25   Afternoon tea

15.45   Scenarios

17.05   Neurological emergencies

17.35   Summary of day one

 

Course programme - day two

08.15   Registration and coffee

08.30   Lecture - gastrointestinal emergencies

09.00   Lecture - sepsis

09.30   Lecture - metabolic emergencies

10.00   Small group tutorials (CVP, NIV, Electrolite disorders, thoracocentesis)

11.00   Mid morning coffee

11.30   Small group tutorials continued

12.30   Care of the unconscious and poisoned patient

13.00   Lunch

13.30   Long case assessments

14.15   Afternoon tea

14.30   Test scenarios

16.00   Communication skills

16.30   Summary and close