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29 - 30 Mar 20102 days (Mon - Tue)London£390BuyAdd course
26 - 27 Jun 20102 days (Sat - Sun)Birmingham£390BuyAdd course
19 - 20 Dec 20102 days (Sun - Mon)Abu Dhabi£390BuyAdd course

It’s the middle of the night and your patient is deteriorating.

What’s on the X-ray? Fluid restrict or rehydrate? Which fluid? Should I give steroids? Transfer to ITU or send home?

It isn't always easy.

Acute Medicine 2010 will be an intensive 2-day course focused on aspects of emergency medicine that make a difference.

The speakers are carefully chosen. They are experts in their fields and are active at the coalface. They are there to give you direct, practical advice and to share their tricks of the trade.

 

Topics covered

  • Heart failure
  • Life threatening arrhythmias
  • Referring for PCI
  • Pulmonary embolus
  • Respiratory failure
  • Renal failure
  • ECG / CXR
  • DKA / HONK
  • The acute liver
 

 

  • GI bleeding
  • Epilepsy
  • Septic shock
  • Pneumonia
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Tropical infections
  • Electrolytes and Acidosis
  • Acute hypertension
  • Meningitis, encephalitis, abscess

Who should attend - Acute Medicine 2010 will be relevant to all individuals involved in acute medicine. It will be designed to give you the confidence to run or be a team member in an Acute Medical Take.

"Probably one of the best courses I've been to in 30 years."

"Very crisp and informative."

"Very useful, practical to the point."

"Very engaging. + Right level of interactivity. Very comprehensive."

"Very intelligent, very good teachers."

"Excellent presentation, loved the cases, very useful."

"Clear, very relevant, well presented."

Best aspect "Quality of teachers."

"Just the right volume of information practiced at the right level."

"Clickers very good fun."

"Excellent teachers."

"Really worthwhile." more

12 CPD points
The 2009 course was granted 12 CPD points by the Royal College of Physicians.
The RCP CPD codes are:
49159: B'ham, 26/9
49158: London, 29/6
49160: M'chester, 8/6

Our lecturers are all Senior SpRs or Consultants who have run busy medical takes themselves, and who are still closely involved with the delivery of acute medicine.

The organisers of the courses are Professor Jaspal S Kooner (Ealing and Hammersmith Hospitals),
Professor Karim Meeran (Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals) and
Dr John Chambers
(St Mary's Hospital).

Course cancellation
If you cancel we will refund you within 4 weeks less £20 to cover admin costs and bank charges. However, if you cancel within 72 hours of the course, and we cannot fill your place, we reserve the right to charge a 100% fee.

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