
Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day 2022
24-25 November 2022
Day 1
Can we fix it? Recurrent infections and antimicrobial stewardship
Dr Morgan Evans
Preserved ejection fraction heart failure – when to call the cardiologist
Dr Alan Japp
Covid-19 outcomes based on ethnicity and gender
Professor Vittal Katikireddi
COVAX and vaccine equity: lessons learnt
Dr Ayoade Alakija
Differential attainment in healthcare workforce education and training in the UK
Professor Mala Rao
Nephrotic syndrome: primary and secondary
Professor Georgi Abraham
Diarrhoea at the front door: updates in inflammatory bowel disease
Dr Elaine Robertson
Medical and surgical challenges of the bariatric patient
Mr Andrew Robertson
Day 2
Use of non-invasive ventilation in acute and chronic respiratory failure (COPD and Sleep Apnoea)
Dr Patrick Murphy
Front door frailty and realistic medicine in action
Dr Rowan Wallace
High yield radiology at the front door
Dr Simon Jackson
Adverse childhood experiences
Professor Sir Harry Burns
Healthcare for prisoners
Dr Craig Sayers
Be aware of the rare: how not to miss inherited metabolic disorders in adults
Dr Eve Miller-Hodges
Maternal medicine – how to keep your NEWS lower than the patient
Professor Catherine Nelson-Piercy
SGLT-2 inhibitors (glofizins) – should we put them in tap water?
Dr Gemma Currie
Complications from contemporary cancer treatments
Dr Ninian Lang

Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day 2021
25-26 November 2021
Day 1
Endocrine emergencies
Dr Rohana Wright
The many faces of thrombosis and its care in COVID-19 infection and vaccination
Professor Beverley Hunt
Epidemiology of COVID-19 – what we’ve learnt from the CCP-UK study
Dr Antonia Ho
Hype, hubris and hope: the use of technology in managing long-term conditions
Professor Brian McKinstry
Big data – supporting decisions and improving patient care
Professor Cathie Sudlow
Social media for science communication and education
Dr Muge Cevik
The neurology of TLoC and funny turns
Dr Richard Davenport
Anaphylaxis during the pandemic
Dr Malcolm Shepherd
Day 2
Drugs and alcohol at the front door
Professor Colin Drummond
Abnormal liver function tests (LFTs)
Dr Andrew Fraser
Learning from complaints
Dr Rhona Siegmeth
Acute kidney injury and the ageing kidney
Dr Fergus Caskey
Complex multimorbidity
Professor Frances Mair
Whole system approach to urgent care for older people living with frailty
Professor Simon Conroy
The acute team – use of treatment escalation plans to reduce patient harm
Professor Robin Taylor
The geriatrician - management of end of life discussions in the acute setting
Dr Gordon Duncan

Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day 2020
24-27 November 2020
Day 1
How to manage acute severe and life threatening asthma
Dr Donald Noble
Lung infection: today and tomorrow
Professor James Chalmers
Sepsis: the hidden medical emergency
Dr Monica Doyle
Targeting treatment for COVID-19
Professor Sir Michael Jacobs
Vasculitis for the generalist
Dr Paula Dospinescu
The red leg: assessment in the acute medical unit
Dr Girish Gupta
Day 2
The hypotensive toxic patient
Dr Euan Sandilands
The ECG in the poisoned patient
Professor Michael Eddleston
The behaviourally disturbed patient
Dr Catriona Howes
Diabetes
Dr Nicola Zammitt
Melaena
Dr Sian Gilchrist
Deranged sodium
Dr Stuart Ritchie
The abnormal potassium
Dr Matt King
Hypercalcaemia
Dr Rachel Williamson
The abnormal blood gas
Dr Mark Longshaw
Deranged thyroid function tests
Dr Fraser Gibb
Day 3
Chest pain
Dr Anne Scott
Syncope
Dr John Davison
Breathlessness
Dr Gerry Carr-White
Acute medical problems in pregnancy
Miss Joanna Girling
Oncology emergencies: new drugs, new problems
Professor Ruth Plummer
Reducing admissions and changing behaviours
Dr James Marple
Day 4
Stroke
Professor Tom Robinson
Intracerebral haemorrhage
Professor Nikola Sprigg
Pain in advanced disease: assessment and management in the Acute Medical Unit
Dr Fiona Finlay
Anticoagulation for venous thromboembolism
Dr Ryan Rodgers
Too much medicine?
Dr Martin Wilson
Cancer of unknown primary
Dr Sally Clive
Anaemia
Dr Fiona Scott
Sexual health in the acute medical unit
Dr Sarah Allstaff

Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day 2019
28-29 November 2019
Day 1
Shared decision making
Dr Caroline Whitworth
Understanding the 'human' factor
Dr Vicky Tallentire
Pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO)
Dr Elham Khatamzas
The acutely jaundiced patient
Dr Michael Williams
Anticoagulation
Professor Henry Watson
Resolving conflict in healthcare
Dr Claire Macaulay
The public understanding of risk
Dr Sander van der Linden
Acute kidney injury (AKI)
Professor Neil Turner
Pulmonary emboli (PE)
Dr Jay Suntharalingam
A good death
Dr Juliet Spiller
Day 2
Paracetamol overdose (OD)
Dr Emma Morrison
Skin failure
Dr Fiona Meredith
Managing the acute take during a major incident
Dr Philip Lee
Wearables in medicine
Dr Ali K Yetisen
Exercise and health
Dr Gregor Smith
Tachyarrhythmias
Dr Paul Broadhurst
The jugular venous pulse (JVP)
Dr Andrew Flapan
Medically unexplained symptoms
Dr Wojtek Wojcik