Acute Medicine: St Andrew's Day

The burden of treatment
Professor Frances Mair

Physician heal thyself – looking after ourselves and our colleagues
Dr Susan Robertson

Encephalitis
Dr Graham MacKay

Malabsorption
Dr Ben Shandro

Hospital at home…can we really keep patients away from hospital?
Professor Daniel Lasserson

Virtual clinics...are they the future?
Dr Jamie Smith

Respiratory medicine
Dr Tom Mackay

Infectious diseases
Dr Gwyneth Jones

Acute abdominal emergencies - management for physicians
Dr Malcolm Smith

Managing the dialysis patient with an acute medical problem
Professor Colin Geddes

Genetically-tailored medicine
Dr Catherine McWilliam

Dementia care and non-pharmacological interventions
Professor Debbie Tolson

Diabetic foot disease
Dr Hannah Robertson

Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state
Dr Jane Dymott

Palliative care – best practice
Dr Katherine Thompson

Managing chronic pain
Dr John Muthiah

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIV in the UK
Dr Naomi Bulteel

Reducing admissions and changing behaviours
Dr James Marple

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