The First Critical Hours

Lectures and Clinical Case Scenarios focusing on the management of patients presenting to
Emergency Departments and MAU’s on Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 January 2010,
at Coventry and Warwickshire University Hospital, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry
 

• Dr Tim Harris, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, Royal London Hospital

• Prof. Colin Robertson, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

• Dr Alistair Billington, Consultant, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Birmingham

A Faculty of Experts includes:

• Prof Lalit Kalra, Professor of Stroke Medicine, King’s College Hospital, London

• Prof. Steve Goodacre, Professor in Emergency Medicine, University of Sheffield

• Dr Simon Shields, Consultant Neurologist, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

• Dr Kim Rajappan, Consultant Cardiologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

• Dr Gavin Perkins, Consultant, Intensive Care Medicine, Warwick Medical School and Heart of England NHS Trust

• Dr Roger Townsend, Consultant, Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Coventry

• Dr Robin Illingworth, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, St James's University Hospital, Leeds

• Practical focus on the most difficult aspects of Emergency, Acute and General Medicine in the first critical hours.

• A UK wide Faculty - all leading specialists in their fields who actually see the patients at the time of assessment and can pass that expert knowledge to front-line clinicians.

• Aimed at Consultants, Registrars and Middle Grades in Emergency, Acute and General Medicine and Specialist Physicians with an Acute Medical ‘take’.

• Two Modules per day: Cardiac/Respiratory, Shock, Critical Care and Metabolism, CNS and Advanced Pearls and Pitfalls with the Experts.

• Each Module includes three state-of-the-art lectures and extended discussion of clinical case scenarios, presenting opportunities to explore in depth the most important practical clinical issues raised by the lectures.

• Contributes to developing effective expert team management for doctors from a variety of backgrounds who are actively delivering emergency and acute care.

What delegates said about the previous First Critical Hours:

• Very good range of topics relevant to daily practice, short, sharp

• Well organised, excellent lectures

• Quality speakers, excellent talks, friendly Q&A/discussion

• Relevant clinical material, interactive

• Great lectures, great venue, length of day just right

• Definitely worth coming -- practical approach, clinical focus on difficult aspects

• Excellent day, all topics relevant and focused

• Excellent, practical, well covered subjects -opportunity to ask the questions, stimulating subjects.

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