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First Critical Hours 2023

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Programme

45 minutes

Sickle cell and the acute and emergency care of this patient group

Dr Rachel Kesse-Adu

Dr Rachel Kesse-Adu

Consultant Haematologist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

45 minutes

Tachyarrhythmia Presenting to the ED

Dr Matthew Ginks

Dr Matthew Ginks

Consultant Cardiologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

45 minutes

Respiratory Emergencies: Investigations, diagnostic and treatment strategies

Dr Pasupathy Sivasothy

Dr Pasupathy Sivasothy

Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge

60 minutes

Syncope Presenting to the ED

Professor Tim Harris

Professor Tim Harris

Professor of Emergency Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

20 minutes

Syncope cases

Professor Tim Harris

Professor Tim Harris

Professor of Emergency Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

45 minutes

Lactate in the ED plus cases

Professor Tim Harris

Professor Tim Harris

Professor of Emergency Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

45 minutes

Acute Heart Failure at the ED

Dr Dan Bromage

Dr Dan Bromage

Consultant Cardiologist, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

45 minutes

Diabetic Emergencies presenting at the ED

Dr Alistair Lumb

Dr Alistair Lumb

Consultant Diabetes/AGM, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

45 minutes

Chest Pain in the Emergency Patient

Dr Laura Hunter

Dr Laura Hunter

Consultant Emergency Medicine & Clinical Toxicology, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London

45 minutes

Toxicology and Drug Misuse

Dr Laura Hunter

Dr Laura Hunter

Consultant Emergency Medicine & Clinical Toxicology, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London

45 minutes

Managing Trauma in the ED

Dr Michael Obiako

Dr Michael Obiako

Consultant Emergency Medicine, Wales

45 minutes

POCUS in the ED

Dr Michael Trauer

Dr Michael Trauer

Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

45 minutes

Obstetric Emergencies including Resuscitative Hysterotomy

Dr Rocio Santamaria

Dr Rocio Santamaria

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London

30 minutes

The vulnerable patient at the ED

Dr Georgina Blanco

Dr Georgina Blanco

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust

45 minutes

Managing Paediatric Emergencies by the Adult Clinician at the ED

Dr Michelle Jacobs

Dr Michelle Jacobs

Consultant and Clinical Lead in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Northwick Park Hospital

45 minutes

Acute kidney/renal failure at the ED

Dr Marlies Ostermann

Dr Marlies Ostermann

Consultant in Nephrology, St Thomas' Hospital, London

45 minutes

Difficult Airway Management in the ED

Dr Marcus Peck

Dr Marcus Peck

Consultant Intensivist, Frimley Park Hospital

45 minutes

Frailty Syndromes in the Emergency Department

Dr Arjun Thaur

Dr Arjun Thaur

Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Learning outcomes

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Course advisors

Dr Laura Hunter

Dr Laura Hunter

Dr Laura Hunter is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Toxicology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London. She completed Emergency Medicine Higher Specialist Training in Merseyside Deanery, prior to her move to London in 2010. Special areas of interest include recreational drug toxicity, Inclusion Health and the development of Routine Blood Borne Virus screening within the Emergency Department.

Professor Tim Harris

Professor Tim Harris

Tim was born in the UK but has spent around half his life overseas. He trained in Emergency Medicine and Intensive care medicine in Australia. He has 15 years experience in prehospital care in Australia (Victoria and Sydney Lifesaver) and UK (London HEMS and East Anglia Air Ambulance). His clinical career has been based around major trauma centres in Australia and the UK. He has worked in 43 hospitals in 11 countries and mixed training with travel for volunteer work in Africa, India and Samoa.

Tim has worked at Barts Health for 16 years and was appointed Professor Emergency Medicine at QMUL and BH in 2012. In 2018 he moved to Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar; one of the largest EDs in the world seeing 1800 patients each day. He is deputy chair and lead for academic affairs.

He divides his academic time between teaching and research. His main interests are resuscitation, ultrasound, airway, point of care testing and education. His research time is focussed facilitating and recruiting to large multicentre studies. He has published around 100 papers. His current main focus is leading the QMUL Emergency & Resuscitation MSc. He supervises the academic trainees and academic students in their research programs and runs the undergraduate and some of the post-graduate teaching programs for QMUL.

Faculty members

Dr Georgina Blanco

Dr Georgina Blanco

Dr Georgina Blanco is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London. She completed Emergency Medicine Higher Specialist Training in South London Deanery before undertaking a fellowship in Clinical Toxicology at St Thomas’ Hospital. Special areas of interest include vulnerable adult care, drug and alcohol presentations and youth violence reduction.

Dr Dan Bromage

Dr Dan Bromage

Dr Bromage is a Consultant Cardiologist at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer at King's College London. His clinical interests include heart failure and inflammatory cardiomyopathies. His research focuses on manipulating inflammation after myocardial infarction to reduce progression to heart failure.

Dr Matthew Ginks

Dr Matthew Ginks

Consultant Cardiologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Dr Michelle Jacobs

Dr Michelle Jacobs

Michelle is an RCEM consultant with subspecialty accreditation in paediatric emergency medicine and works at Northwick Park hospital in Harrow, as the ED clinical lead for paediatric ED.

Her particular area of interest and focus for several years has been on the management of adolescents in the ED and beyond- delivery of developmentally appropriate healthcare for this often neglected) age group and working towards improving the experience and the care which we provide to them. On this topic she has researched, and published and spoken at many national meetings and events. I am a member of the RCEM Paeds emergency medicine professional advisory group and the RCPCH intercollegiate emergency standards committee to further this work.

Dr Rachel Kesse-Adu

Dr Rachel Kesse-Adu

Dr Rachel Kesse-Adu FRCP, FRCPath qualified in Medicine from Imperial College School of Medicine in London in 2002 and specialised in haematology at the Kings College Hospital. She was appointed to her current consultant haematology post at Guy's and St Thomas' in 2012.

Rachel's research interests focus on the cardiovascular and urological complications of sickle cell anaemia. She is interested in postgraduate education and is the training program director for haematology specialist trainees on the London South Central rotation. She is one of the network leads for the south thames sickle cell and thalassaemia network and chair of the guideline writing group. She is clinical lead for the haemochromatosis service.

Dr Alistair Lumb

Dr Alistair Lumb

Consultant Diabetes/AGM, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Michael Obiako

Dr Michael Obiako

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Royal Glamorgan Hospital - Cwm Taf University Health Board and Ultrasound Lead for the All Wales School of Emergency Medicine

Dr Marlies Ostermann

Dr Marlies Ostermann

Consultant in Nephrology, St Thomas' Hospital, London

Dr Marcus Peck

Dr Marcus Peck

Consultant Intensivist, Frimley Park Hospital

Dr Rocio Santamaria

Dr Rocio Santamaria

Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London

Dr Pasupathy Sivasothy

Dr Pasupathy Sivasothy

Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge

Dr Arjun Thaur

Dr Arjun Thaur

Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Michael Trauer

Dr Michael Trauer

Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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