Medical Emergencies in Primary Care Online Course

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Patients with life threatening illness may present to the GP surgery for medical care. Early recognition and treatment are essential in most cases to avoid serious long term morbidity or even unexpected death. This course focuses on these presentations and draws on a symptom based approach to review the recognition and treatment for a range of life-threatening emergencies including anaphylaxis, acute myocardial ischaemia, abdominal disease in the elderly and acute headache.

The course explores the following topics:
1. Acute Anaphylaxis - Recognition and Emergency Management
2. Severe Headache - Red flags for Serious disease
3. Acute Abdominal Pain - Assessment and Investigation
4. Cardiac Chest Pain - Immediate Management and ECG diagnosis