An extensive learning series containing ten videos with specialist lecturers, combining two in-depth learning series focused on pain management and anaesthesia in sick or unstable patients as outlined below:

Updates in Pain Management Series:

Pain management is integral to many areas of first opinion practice, from routine surgery to orthopaedics and emergency to internal medicine. This learning series with Matt Gurney is designed to give you the skills and confidence to treat pain in both the acute and chronic setting. By concentrating on techniques relevant to first opinion practice it will help you to provide options for treatment, keep patients comfortable and enhance their wellbeing.

Anaesthesia and Sedation in Sick and Unstable Patients Series:

The aim of this learning series is to cover the principles surrounding sedation and anaesthetic management of the sick and unstable patients that regularly present in general practice. Clinicians can often be hesitant to use anaesthesia or sedation in clinically unstable patients or in patients with chronic medical conditions due to the higher risk involved. This learning series with Becky Robinson and Frances Downing aims to give you the tools to safely and effectively use sedation and anaesthesia in patients with endocrine, neurological and cardiac conditions as well as in emergency situations including sepsis and polytrauma.

Topics covered include:

An update on acute pain management and pain scoring

Using everyday local anaesthesia

Which analgesic CRIs to consider

Why is chronic pain so hard to treat?

First and second line treatment options

How the pathophysiology of disease affects drug choice and anaesthetic management

Developing confidence in management of the more challenging, acute emergency patient

Anaesthetic considerations for BOAS patients and patients with cardiac, endocrine or neurological disease

Anaesthetic management of the pregnant bitch