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

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Topic/Time

Notes

9.00-9.45

Arthritis

Monoarthritis -differential diagnosis, investigation and treatment

Emergency complications of common arthropathies

9.45-10.30

Rheumatology

Arteritis/Vasculitis

Lupus

Coffee Break   10.30-10.45

 

10.45-11.15

Elderly falls

Complications of ‘a long lie’

Investigation of falls and prevention

11.15-12.00

Polypharmacy

Unforeseen interactions

Common issues

12.00-12.30

Fragility fractures

Common sites

Detection and prevention fragility fractures

Lunch   12.30-13.15

 

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)

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)

Coffee Break    14.15-14.30

 

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.

15.00-15.30

Common rashes

Measles, chicken pox, rubella

Impetigo, herpes

15.30-16.00

Skin lesions

BCC, SCC, melanoma

Lyme’s, Typhus, leishmaniasis, orf

ACCS Curriculum - Acute presentations – falls, rash, atraumatic limb pain/swelling

- Practical procedures – knee aspiration

 

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