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