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Ambulance services

Course

Point of Care Ultrasound – lung & lines, abdomen & heart (Hands on)

08 February 2025

Brighton

This Course will benefit Paediatric and Neonatal consultants & trainees and advanced nurse practitioners and researchers in the diagnostic use of ultrasound as per POCUS guidance. The Course aims to deliver the essential theoretical knowledge and practical experience with helpful tips relevant to PO...
Area of medicine
Academic medicine
Anaesthesia
Cardiovascular
Child and adolescent mortality
Emergency medicine
General paediatrics
Inherited metabolic medicine
Intensive care medicine
Neonatal medicine
Care setting
Ambulance services
Secondary care
Tertiary care
Conditions
Rare disease
Course

Difficult Vascular Access in Children (DVAC)

13 December 2024

Nottingham

This is a fun, interactive course aiming to encourage vein-preserving and time-saving techniques to improve outcomes and satisfaction for patients and carers. Feedback from previous DVAC courses has said the course has positively changed peoples’ practice. The course has previously run in Belfast an...
Area of medicine
Anaesthesia
Emergency medicine
General paediatrics
Intensive care medicine
Surgery
Care setting
Ambulance services
Tertiary care
Conditions
Asthma
Cancer
Chronic illness
Diabetes
Epilepsy
Rare disease
Stroke
Document

Administration of rectal diazepam to neonates and infants to treat seizures prior to hospital admission - position statement

This guidance is for ambulance services which need to administer diazepam, a medicine for treating seizures, to neonates and infants. It explains how to accurately administer a 1.25mg or 2.5mg dose directly from a 5mg rectal tube. Buccal midazolam is usually preferred to rectal diazepam in the ho...
Drugs and medicines
Emergency medicine
Neurology
Ambulance services
Epilepsy