This virtual course is designed for consultants and other senior doctors working in any field of medicine where a medical emergency may be encountered.

Topics/Speakers: 

Thursday 26th May
Platform briefing by technician
- Introduction
Mervyn Singer
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine
University College London
- Dermatology emergencies
Claire Martyn-Simmons
Consultant Dermatologist
UCLH NHS Foundation Trust
- Haematology emergencies
John-Paul Westwood
Consultant Haematologist
University College London
- Respiratory emergencies
David Howell
Divisional Clinical Director
UCL Critical Care Unit
- Liver failure
Mark McPhail
Senior Lecturer & Consultant in Liver Critical Care
King’s College London
- Acute GI emergencies
Ed Seward
Consultant Gastroenterologist
UCLH NHS Foundation Trust
- Status epilepticus
Sanjeev Rajakulendran
Consultant Neurologist
UCL Institute of Neurology
- Overdose & poisoning
David Wood
Consultant Clinical Toxicologist
St Thomas’ Hospital
- Hypertensive crisis
Mervyn Singer
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine
University College London
- Sepsis and the hypotensive patient
Manu Shankar-Hari
Chair of Translational Critical Care Medicine
University of Edinburgh

Friday 27th May
- Acute coronary syndromes
Mick Ozkor
Interventional and Congenital Cardiologist
Barts Heart Centre
- Heart failure
Mervyn Singer
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine
University College London
- Acute stroke
Rob Simister
Consultant Stroke Neurologist
UCLH NHS Foundation Trust
- Oliguria & acute renal failure
Marlies Ostermann
Consultant in Critical Care & Nephrology
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
- Metabolic emergenciees
Mervyn Singer
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine
University College London
- Infectious disease emergencies
Philip Gothard
Consultant in Infectious Diseases
UCLH NHS Foundation Trust
- Arrhythmias
Jaswinder Gill
Consultant Cardiologist
St Thomas’ Hospital

Release Date : Thursday 26th & Friday 27th May 2022