Acute Confusion
Courses tagged with "Acute Confusion"

HDU - Management of the deteriorating patient 2021
Broadcast 28 September 2021
Talks
The delirious and agitated patient: Assessment and Management
Dr Valerie Page
Major Haemorrhage in the non-obstetric patient
Dr David Hall

Knowing Neurology, Psychiatry and Ophthalmology 2021
Broadcast 25 May 2021
Talks
Physical Health in People with Psychosis - what to look out for
Dr Fiona Gaughran

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

Delirium Teaching Day (EDA / SDA / RCPE)
04 September 2019
Content
- A patient experience | Mr Mark Hudson
- Assessment and management of delirium: key points from the 2019 SIGN Guidelines | Professor Alasdair MacLullich
- Real-world implementation of better delirium care | Professor James Rudolph
- Care of the highly agitated patient with delirium - a case based approach | Dr Gillian Scott
- Medico-legal aspects of delirium: avoiding the major pitfalls | Dr Alan Duncan
- Delirium education in healthcare settings: how to make it effective | Dr Andy Teodorczuk
- Understanding distressed behaviour in delirium: video-based case discussion | Nicola Wood
- Managing risk of falls in patients with delirium | Dr Hazel Miller
- When delirium persists, what should we do? | Dr Roanna Hall and Dr Keri Jamieson
- Question and answer session | Expert Panel

Day 1 - Joint Conference on Delirium 2019 (EDA / RCPE)
05 September 2019
Content
- Delirium lookalikes you need to know about | Dr Karin Neufeld
- Case 1: Delirium versus terminal restlessness | Professor Meera Agar
- Case 2: A diagnostic challenge | Dr Adam Al-Diwani
- Case 3: Severe, intractable agitation in intensive care unit (ICU) delirium | Dr Babar Khan
- Case 4: Delirium superimposed on dementia (DSD)? | Dr Alessandro Morandi
- A patient experience | Ms Alexandra Adams
- A carer experience | Dr Julie Lustig
- A new digital and quality improvement programme to improve delirium care | Dr Emma Vardy
- Basic science | Dr Colm Cunningham
- Applying systematic review methodology: identifying research gaps, refining future trials | Dr Esther Oh
- Definition and assessment of inattention: insights from psychological research | Dr Zoë Tieges
- Delirium and data science - endophenotype identification, classification, prediction, enrichment | Dr Robert Stevens
- Origins of psychotic features | Dr Edwin van Dellen
- Workshop B: Assessment and management of distress in delirium | Dr Jude Partridge and Ms Ffion Pritchard
- Workshop H: The wicked problem of delirium education: aligning medical education research to practice | Dr Andy Teodorczuk (and Professor Jan Illing)

Day 2 - Joint Conference on Delirium 2019 (EDA / RCPE)
06 September 2019
Content
- What's new in paediatric delirium? | Dr Heidi Smith
- Clinical psychological interventions in the intensive care unit (ICU) | Dr Dorothy Wade
- Delirium in primary care: development and experience of new pathway | Dr Lorna Dunlop
- Cognition care in the Australian National Standards (2nd ed) | Dr Julie Lustig
- Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) 2019 Guidelines on Delirium> | Ms Daisy Sandeman
- New findings from the Delirium and Population Health Informatics Cohort (DELPHIC) Study | Dr Daniel Davis
- Update on the German National Delirium Care Programme | Dr Stefan Kreisel
- Agency for the Health Quality and Research (AHRQ) commissioned systematic review on using antipsychotics for delirium 2019 | Dr Esther Oh
- The electroencephalogram (EEG) in delirium: where are we now in clinical practice and research? | Professor Arjen Slooter
- Quality improvement (QI) in healthcare: what is it and why do we do it? | Ms Carol Andrews
- Improving the quality of sleep in the intensive care unit (ICU) | Dr Biren Kamdar
- An ounce of prevention is worth a pound: implementing a comprehensive delirium care program at a university hospital | Dr Vanja Douglas
- Delirium in hospice care: quality improvement (QI) projects | Dr Juliet Spiller
- Multi-disciplinary pathway for managing delirium: Quality improvement (QI) initiative at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan | Dr Shireen Najam